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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did you offer it? Did you offer an opinion?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And that was that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Were you ever, and forgive me if you have answered this before, I just can't quite recall. Were you ever consulted or involved or engaged in any way, shape or form with any kind of draft guarantee, maybe in the nine months prior to September? I just couldn't remember, Chair.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Now, given that we talked earlier on about the concerns that you had and obviously the Department of Finance had them as well, the Minister for Finance had them in the turn of August 2007, moving into December 2007-January 2008. How was it, if you were listening as a member of the public, how was it that it took a full further nine months for us to arrive at that night of panic given that...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, but bells were ringing. Indeed, you were kind of ringing the bells yourself by saying "Well, we don't really want to put any more into ..."

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Who was listening to that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: So for you to be concerned in fact in 2007, for a guy who is conservative, the wolf was well out of the picture there-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Finally, in relation to the conversation you had with Deputy O'Toole earlier on, and you were talking about, you know, I'm sorry ... I'm sorry there were several conversations, I'm sorry, I'll start again. Conversations we had about unpaid debt and the pursuit of people who were not ... you know ... who were still going to owe money. On foot of Mr. Lenihan's, you know, promise that all ......

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: They stay the same.

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I welcome the Minister and apologise for being elsewhere, blessed with a toothache at the time. I appreciate that the Minister has a rather mixed bag of portfolios which make great demands on his time. However, the Polska Éire event is an example of the way he has managed to marry parts of the new community and a cultural event thereby breaking down the silos that sometimes exist, not...

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: We do love sausages. Perhaps there is an opportunity to extend the food part because it is genuinely a place for people to go, particularly for people who do not like football, if I can say that in a whisper-----

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----and who may not feel able to engage at the cultural level. Food is a basic thing but such events allow people to come forward, and they have a strong part to play. The Minister has spent a good deal of the afternoon engaging with the oversight committee on the question of direct provision. That work is ongoing, and I know the Minister is constrained in what he can say until the...

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: That is the one thing I would urge. Whatever else the Minister of State may set out to achieve, taking the report and making it happen will be something that he has our support for and it is something I would like to see. I am grateful to him for his support of the Yeats 2015 celebration. It would be remiss of me not to mention Yeats. As much as he can talk about football, I can talk...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I support Senator Ivana Bacik in her call for a debate on the issue of domestic violence. We were struck last week by the detail of the murder trial that was ongoing which was indicative of what we did not know about people's lives. Nevertheless, we do know about domestic violence. Many people suffer in silence or behind closed doors, but we are aware of the matter which has been raised in...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I wish to make one remark and one correction to something Senator Walsh said. All children need love, preferably from loving parents, and to have as many people as possible in their lives who can love them. The sex of the parent or parents makes no difference in their capacity to love and care for a child.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: You know that it is true.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Senator Bacik has asked me to put on record an important correction. Senator Mullen suggested that-----

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I beg your pardon, Acting Chairman. He is not but present, but I cannot see behind me. It was suggested that the Hague Convention does not permit single people to adopt. It does in fact permit single people to adopt, and there have been a number of inter-country adoptions in Ireland by sole adoptees. It is important to correct the record.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: The Senator should also state who paid for them because that is relevant.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: On a point of order, the observation made by Senator Jim Walsh on ICCL should be withdrawn, as it is absolutely untrue. Regardless of whether he ought to get back to the amendment, it is untrue.