Results 7,841-7,860 of 16,492 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Let me be clear. The committee may have a problem with the Senator because of our terms of reference.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Will Professor Farrell answer the question?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: That is a cross-departmental committee and includes the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I wish to round off one issue with Professor Farrell regarding the level of access members of the public have to public representatives in Ireland. In the context of levels of accessibility among our European partners, how would it rate? Does Professor Farrell rate it as being high or low and is that a good or bad thing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: For example, were someone to ring his or her congressman, for want of a better word, to arrange to meet on the following Saturday, how does that play out internationally and in Ireland?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: That is at election time but I am talking about the level of access-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: ----- the public has to national elected politicians. On an international scale, how would we rate?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: The highest?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: However, Professor Farrell would rate Ireland as being very high.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: In terms of participating in democracy, how does Professor Farrell rate that? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I thank Professor Farrell. I call Deputy O'Donnell, who has six minutes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Two minutes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I need a question and ask Deputy Higgins to re-frame that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: You are asking Professor Farrell his interpretation of the dynamic in those processes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: This committee has 11 members and I do not know how many other committees we have been involved in. In his presentation, Professor Farrell quoted the Art O'Leary briefing note on Oireachtas committees and the functionalities they can continue. To reframe Deputy O'Donnell's question on which committee is the best, is Professor Farrell aware of examples of situations in which some committees...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Much of Professor Farrell's presentation was about reform. Does he mean he is also engaging in the sharing of power as opposed to reforming the structure?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Does this imply that there is a certain crux in the dilemma that when one shares power, one shares responsibility?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Given Professor Farrell's continuous restatement this morning that power has not been shared in the Irish democratic model since the foundation of the State, who has the ultimate responsibility, the Parliament or the Government?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I have been Chairman of approximately five committees and have witnessed this in government and in opposition. Is Professor Farrell familiar with how the Estimates process is run here?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Professor Farrell outlined difficulties in how Governments might hand over responsibility and share power with Opposition parties. Might Opposition parties also have difficulties with sharing in that engagement? For example, in the budgetary process one would have to be more forthcoming and open about one's financial positions rather than cherry picking. I am basing this on having been in...