Results 2,621-2,640 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That is fine. In his statement, Mr. Vaughan spoke about the daily national newspaper, saying, "We are reliant on agents of the State to be competent, professional, open, honest and reliable in what they do and say, and then we report on that." Is it fair to say that is Mr. Vaughan's ethos and central point?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. I am seeking clarification because Mr. Vaughan said "We are" and not "We were".
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Vaughan was speaking in the context of the time in question. Would he say that the newspaper is not like that any more?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: What made the newspaper take them on faith, given that there had been other stories in the past, going back decades, to indicate that such organisations were not always professional, open, honest and reliable? It is the role of a journalist to always question everything that is handed down and never to take anything as being set in stone.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Without question?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Is Mr. Vaughan saying that the newspaper did not challenge because it did not have any evidence?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: What was stopping Mr. Vaughan, as the editor, from asking his journalists to go out and seek such evidence, to try to challenge these views? What allowed him to be in a position in which he would accept what they were saying without challenging it? Mr. Vaughan cited the paper's own contrarians, Maurice O'Connell and Ryle Dwyer, whose views were published. Why did Mr. Vaughan not say to...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: As it was happening - say, in 2003 - I am curious to know why Mr. Vaughan, as the editor, would have been reliant on agents of the State in that way, rather than questioning them by seeking out the evidence. The paper had already published some contrarian views. What stopped it from pushing further?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, but Mr. Vaughan was accepting the version presented by these bodies. Why were they any more valuable than the paper's capacity to challenge? I still do not understand what stopped the paper from challenging.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I thank the Chair and Dr. Byrne. Going back to the €10.1 million figure in the 2007 election, there is no available information for the remaining €8.8 million. Deputy John Paul Phelan mentioned individual donations but where does Dr. Byrne think the €8.8 million came from or does she not know?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So there is disclosed and undisclosed and we know what they are. Are there also secret payments?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, either to individuals or to parties.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Has Dr. Byrne ever asked political parties or politicians about that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Has Dr. Byrne spoken to political parties in relation to her own research?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did she interview and talk to political parties about what they thought and what they were prepared to disclose?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: What was their response?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, I mean what was their response about disclosure or the lack of it. Were they in favour of further disclosure or are they tight about not wanting to disclose any more?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: One does not know the detail.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Over the period at which the joint committee is looking, going back to the 1990s, is Dr. Byrne aware of whether any political party ever had an offshore account for taking in money from anywhere?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.