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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Otherwise we will be going on all night.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: The next name on my list is Senator Higgins. We want to try to keep to the time constraints.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We have the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We have to concentrate the meeting into segments we can manage. For instance, there are two more speakers and we do not want to be here all night.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: The Senator put her questions one, two, three, four, five and six.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Could we-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Please, could we get to this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: The Senator is already ten minutes into time. It will not run for another ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That is debatable. We have to facilitate other speakers as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Can we get the answer to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Just one second, now. Hold on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: No, no, no.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I want an answer to the question. The Senator is entitled to the answer to the question and to put the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We have to ensure, well the next question that comes out we get the answer to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Governor and his colleagues to the meeting. I am sorry I was not present for the initial statement but I was not idle at the time. There are a couple of things that come to mind. The Governor mentioned fragmentation earlier on. He is correct. There is considerable evidence of that fragmentation throughout Europe. Europe spoke with one mind, appeared to speak with one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: No, an economic one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I agreed with Mr. Makhlouf but, very often, political leaders require signals from the statutory agencies that are there to protect the institutions of the state and so on. At this stage, there is a need for messages from them, directed at home and abroad, from time to time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Mr. Makhlouf is coming close enough to it. I will move a step further, if I might. On the much-disputed FDI, the European court's decision was not meant to be of benefit to Ireland's foreign direct investment. That is not speculation; it is a fact. It is hoped by some people across the globe that it will have a lasting impact of a negative nature. I happen to know about that as well. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank Ms Rowland.