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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Ms Tinney, you refer to the bonus culture. Some would call it as being crazy. Did you ... again, were you in conflict with the board or with elements of the board of management in regard to that in EBS?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: And just finally, Ms Tinney, then, you refer to the relationship between the bankers and developers as a "feeding frenzy". You refer to securitisation as "shark eating its entrails". And you refer to "greed and recklessness" in the banking system. And then you also say, in relation to the bank guarantee, "in effect yield the sovereignty of this country in order to shore up a banking system...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Finally, Ms Tinney, what would your view then be on a publicly-owned, democratically-run banking or financial system, as opposed to the present model?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Some people have ... or the financial market system, say, within Europe, the austerity agendas, etc., has led some commentators to say that it's a kind of an economic dictatorship. Would you have a view on that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Anyway.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Chair, if there are any pro-marketeers among the members, they can challenge that. I'm concluding, thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: I'm finished.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: No further questions, thank you. Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Mr. Gormley, around budget time, there is a practice of lobbying Ministers and the Government by organisations representing developers and builders. As Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, were you lobbied in your time? Did you influence the Minister for Finance in any aspects of the budgets that were in your time? If so, can you outline any such changes and could...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Mr. Gormley, you say in page 1 of your written statement, "It’s a fact that two thirds of what is known euphemistically as the ‘fiscal adjustment’, which led to the recovery, was made by the Green Party in government." You say that "Green Party TDs and Senators voted for these cut backs and tax increases, convinced that this was the correct course of action, while also...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: And on the democratic mandate, Mr. Gormley?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Well, I am afraid I am not in a space where I can debate that with you just now, Mr. Gormley, but I would not act in the way you suggest. Ms Harney, you say in your statement, "I am proud of the economic and social achievements over the period [in government].", and in the Oireachtas core documents, Vol. 2, it says, I'll quote very briefly, the Progressive Democrats 2007 election manifesto...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Finally-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Yes, finally, Ms Harney, in evidence to this inquiry, Mr. McWilliams ... referring to a "Prime Time" October 2003, where he said: The Irish housing market is a scam. It is an enormous financial swindle that could potentially confine an entire generation of young Irish people to years of bad debt. Far from being a reflection of economic vitality and fundamental demand the housing bubble...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Mr. Kenny, when you were leader of a major Opposition party from 2002-07, were you able to meet with staff or officials from the Central Bank or the Financial Regulator?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: There was no meetings - structured or informal?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Okay. Based on your experience of that time and looking into the future, should there be a structured possibility for parties in opposition to meet with the Central Bank and the regulator in relation to financial issues of the day?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: Thank you. Mr. Kenny, the Fianna Fáil Party has been heavily criticised for hosting an annual fundraising initiative in a marquee in ... during Galway Race week, and it was said that many developers, including some of the biggest debtors in NAMA, were said to be there making contributions. Now, on 6 February 2011, Michael O'Farrell, correspondent with the Irish Mail on Sunday, under a...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Joe Higgins: How do you explain this interaction then and what's the difference between the Galway tent, which you often criticised, and these golf classics?