Results 661-680 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, but, I beg your pardon-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----I meant your company, yes. When Mr. Quinlan was here before us, on page 51 of his evidence, he talked about how he discovered that, in fact, it was the German banks who were making the loans to him. He said he hadn't realised that the Irish banks were, in fact, selling the loans. So he discovered that ... he said: [W]e were paying the Irish bank 1.5% but her bank were only charging...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. So were you aware of this selling of loans?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No. Okay. And why ... so I think you said it was ... was it just that it became the way you did business, that you kept your business here and your ... your banking business here-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----that you didn't ... that you didn't seek to go outside? Okay. When Mr. ... bear with me, when Mr. McCreevy was here, the former Minister for Finance, he said: I personally am not close to any of the builders. I know lots of builders [I] know lots of tradesmen ... I know lots of accountants, I know lots of punters, I know lots of other kinds of people. I know lots of politicians, or...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And would he have been someone you might have invited to your home or to various events that you were hosting?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Absolutely. In relation to Mr. Ahern, of course, the former Taoiseach, he said he ... "I don't believe that I, personally, had much interaction with property developers". Again, I'm wondering what your relationship with Mr. Ahern might, might ... might be or have been.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Would you have been able, Mr. Mulryan, to ring them up if you wanted to ask them something? Because, you know, some people don't know politicians on that level and some people do.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No. Never?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. I know that, obviously, what your business now, we're not really discussing but I ... but you have recently been in China with Mr. Ahern, isn't that right? Well, relatively recently, I'm sorry. In the last number of years.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you know, or have any relationship with, Mr. Brian Cowen, again the former Taoiseach and former Minister for Finance?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And so again, obviously, you'd invite him to various events?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So, obviously, the reason I'm asking, Mr. Mulryan, is that a lot has been written about developers and politicians and their relationship and, you know, many people in the country don't have a relationship with politicians at all and they wonder how it happens that developers become close and, of course, I think it's fair to say you were also in the Galway tent. Is that right?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. So would you have had a similar relationship with politicians across all the parties or was it just these politicians that we've spoken of?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Would you invite as many of them to your ... in the same way as the three that we've discussed?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Do you believe that that allowed you any advantage, that relationship that you had with them, or not?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you ever calculate, Mr. Mulryan, how much the various tax breaks and incentives ... did you ever make a calculation as to how much they might have benefited you, or did they benefit you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Urban renewal schemes and-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Nothing at all?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Well, that's, I mean-----