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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Was there always a rule that the second list of speakers would get only five minutes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: That is news to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I hope so. We can always give Deputy Mathews a bit more time. He needs it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Gabhaim buíochas don Ghobharnóir as teacht os comhair an choiste inniu. I would like to ask Professor Honohan about the forthcoming banking inquiry and the European Central Bank's participation therein. Has he discussed it with his ECB colleagues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: They are not minded to attend. Has Professor Honohan discussed it with Mr. Draghi?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I think Professor Honohan should tell them. He has to decide. He is Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Professor Honohan is also a member of the governing board. It is like the Trinity, except there is only two people-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: That is disconcerting. Professor Honohan says "They" but he should really say "We" because he is a member of the board. Surely he can be part of a discussion-making process which states that the European Central Bank, of which he is part and on which he represents us, will attend?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Professor Honohan has to go, as our representative on the ECB and in our best interest, and explain to them that this is absolutely essential for public faith in the European system. The public needs to find out what happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: One could compare Professor Honohan to the Trinity but there are only two persons in one year - the Irish Central Bank and the European Central Bank. He has a key role here and I am sure he will have no difficulty appearing before the committee but does he not think it would be better if his European colleagues, some of whom seem to have more influence than others, appeared before the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Will there be a vote at the executive council on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Central Bank (26 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I am not on that committee, so that is why I am talking about it. I am sure my colleagues here, who are on the committee, would not be able to discuss it.
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: My party was not represented in the Dáil when the ESB was established.
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: It is not in it.
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Where does the figure of €400 come from?
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: There have been ten U-turns by the Government in the last few months.
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Fianna Fáil invested twice as much money as this Government, in capital investment.
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Thomas Byrne: When Fianna Fáil made a freedom of information request asking the Government to set out the business case for Irish Water we were presented with a 160-page document from Bord Gáis to the Department. I am showing this document for the cameras. Page 1 is blacked out. Page 2 is blacked out. The table of contents gives a flavour of what else is blacked out, because everything in it...