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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The question really isn't about the timing and all the rest, I think we were splitting hairs about whether off guard or unaware or unprepared. The question is that the project that ye were involved in had leaked. It had leaked to the media.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: As these things do and in your direction order it raises concerns about uncontrolled withdrawal of credit and deposits. The question I have is, given that the imminent liquidation of IBRC began to seep out to certain parts of the public, did the Department of Finance ever investigate whether there was credit or deposits, approvals or withdrawals from IBRC that were probably questionable in...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: It was not did it happen, did you investigate it? Was there investigation?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all available tax reliefs associated with property; the rationale for such tax reliefs; the number of persons availing of them; and the cost to the Exchequer in the past full tax year. [24027/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 147. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details in tabular form of State funding to a charity (details supplied) for the past ten years including to date in 2015. [24028/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details in tabular form of State funding to a refuge (details supplied) in Dublin 17 for the past ten years including 2015 to date. [24029/15]
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Go raibh math agat a Chathaoirligh agus fáilte roimh an tUasal Considine. Can I start by maybe just asking you - in relation the interaction that took place ... regular interaction that took place between the Department of Finance, the Central Bank and the ESRI on matters regarding macroeconomic forecasting - in your recollection, Mr. Considine, were there ever any major difference in...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Was there any ... was there major differences-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----between the three and if there were major differences, how were they worked out?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: In relation to the financial stability report which you signed off on as a board member of the Central Bank, did you agree with - you say you agreed with the report ... was it your view or not that the warnings or the risks that were in ... outlined in the financial stability report were toned down? Was there more information at board level in relation to ... board level in relation to the...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: But, in your view ... and that's fair enough ... but in your view there was no stronger feelings in ... there's been evidence given, for example, that if you said there was such a risk to financial stability it would be self-fulfilling, it would bring on the thing you wanted to avoid. In your view, were there any kind of discussions of that nature at board level in relation to the financial...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. You mentioned earlier to one of our Deputies, your pension was in the region of €118,000, I think. That's the current, probably, salary, is it? I think it was higher than that at one stage.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Not much. I think it was €125,000-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----that's been put on the Dail record. Can I ask you, in relation to your appointment as a public interest director, did you receive the €97,000 - as a public interest director - in 2012 on top of the pension or was that subsumed into the pension?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: On top of the pension. And when did you step down as a public interest director?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: You didn't? You're still a public interest director?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: And what is the level of fees for a public interest director on the board of Bank of Ireland today?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Pearse Doherty: So, what is the total just for the last published year that you have?