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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: O01000 type: 1 --> Nobody thought of it. Notwithstanding the Chairman's acknowledgement of Professor FitzGerald's taking responsibility for what happened, did he consider resigning?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Why?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: When Professor Honohan was here, I asked him why, despite the failings and lack of management and oversight at the Central Bank during the time, nobody had resigned or had been asked to resign from the Central Bank. In his reply, he said various things had changed, but that he had organised his organisation to be effective and functional and was not sure he should have expressed a view on...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Despite the level of work Professor FitzGerald did, particularly in 2005, he said people were not listening and he was concerned about it. Why does he think people were not listening and the Government did not act, given the seriousness of what he was saying and his personal reputation as somebody who would have known what he was talking about?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Are we reduced to that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Earlier, Professor FitzGerald talked about when he was in Warsaw and said he had written to the Financial Regulator on foot of his concern about developers potentially leveraging funding from a bank in Poland as well as banks here. Did he do that personally or on behalf of the ESRI? What made him suddenly think to do it at that moment, given that it was the realm of developers and bank...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Professor FitzGerald told the Chairman the Financial Regulator's response was unsatisfactory. Did the Financial Regulator's office not reply?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did Professor FitzGerald pursue that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Would Professor FitzGerald have, on any other occasion, been as concerned as he was on that occasion, when he actually put pen to paper, so to speak? Would he have done that before?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: How did Professor FitzGerald manifest his concern?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Can Professor FitzGerald recall whether the various reasons included a reluctance on anyone's part, or simply a diary clash or-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Would Professor FitzGerald have ever taken those concerns to a wider place or to anybody else? Did he think: "If I cannot get into that office, shall I go somewhere else?"

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: How would Professor FitzGerald describe his own level of frustration over years of deciding he was not campaigning, which I understand, in terms of giving information to people and watching those people not take it, for a variety of reasons?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: During Professor FitzGerald's tenure at the ESRI, was he aware of efforts made to reduce the dependence on contracts or contractual arrangements, or work being done for Government in order to try to rebalance, if one likes, its income streams?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Can Professor FitzGerald tell us how many banks the ESRI worked for during this period of time. He mentioned the approach made by AIB and mention was made of PTSB. Did the professor do work for others?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Was it macroeconomic advice that was provided?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did that preparation involve Professor FitzGerald or his colleagues on the team looking at the bank figures?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Was Professor FitzGerald ever approached privately, as a professor as opposed to in his day job, to do work for anybody else?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did Professor FitzGerald do any other work? I am not talking about moneys he may have been paid, but asking whether he did any other relevant work.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I agree with Senator Sean Barrett and commend the work done by the various journalists in a truly international collaboration which showed the strength of joining together the forces of investigative journalism to allow monumental work to be undertaken. As someone who worked for "Panorama", I know exactly the kind of commitment that takes, particularly in taking on large organisations,...