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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Professor Ahearne used the expression "housing bubble" in 2005 so he must have known that there was a bubble.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Professor Ahearne said we were on our own if the bubble were to burst.

Seanad: Mid-Term Review of the Europe 2020 Strategy: Statements (3 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I welcome the Minister of State. This debate is very important. If one were to go out on to the street and ask people about the Europe 2020 strategy they would struggle to answer. Senators and the Minister of State have a role to play in improving that situation. In a way, he gets buried and caught in the detail because of the work he must do. Therefore, as other public representatives,...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: What happened? Did the Minister not take Mr. McWilliams's advice to make the guarantee conditional?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: How did Mr. McWilliams feel about that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: In the years that Mr. McWilliams was writing all his warnings, did anyone ever come up to him at a conference, on the street, in the pub, or anywhere at all? Did they write to him or telephone him and tell him he did not know the half of it, or something similar? He says he was the outsider and that he wrote 1 million words, that he was issuing warnings and nobody came to him or called him-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----in the official arena. I am asking whether there were people who said to him quietly that he was right.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: When the Minister left Mr. McWilliams's house that night, having had the garlic and the tea, how would Mr. McWilliams describe what he was feeling on a scale on one to ten, if one was very concerned and ten was very comforted?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Is Mr. McWilliams saying that there was still a significant shortage of facts available to the former Minister?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. McWilliams talks about reading and watching credit swaps, repo spreads, figures and facts, I suspect, to say that he was not just saying these things, he knew them. Is he saying that he was the only one doing that? Were other people doing that exercise, or was he just pursuing and digging?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: One has to look .

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Most people were not looking at that.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: When Professor Ed Kane came before the inquiry he said there was a tendency to regard bankers as high priests. Does Professor McDonough have an opinion on this?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Was that a tendency at the time?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: The medium-term review published by the ESRI in 2008 stated, among other things, "the fundamentals of the Irish economy are sound". From Professor John FitzGerald's evidence to this inquiry we know the ESRI had done no research on the financial sector for a number of years. Can an economist ever say the fundamentals of an economy are sound without examining the financial sector?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Could Professor McDonough expand on that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: On that note, if one were to examine any economy, would one, as best practice, include the financial sector as part of the activity?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Was the ESRI alone in thinking the financial sector did not matter?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: On page six of Professor McDonough's statement, he described the IFSC as "an important conduit for foreign capital flows". Is he saying the existence of the IFSC was what allowed the flow of foreign capital and had it not existed, there could not have been such a flood?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: When Professor Gregory Connor gave evidence he said 88% of GDP was coming in as hidden borrowing through the banking system, and we are on the hook for it. How did we arrive at such a position?