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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: When the meeting is over-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I will give the Senator the time back later on, but if he wishes I will go over the replay-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I am stopping the clock now. I will go back over the text later on. These proceedings are recorded. Senator MacSharry asked a question but that was a leading question and we can watch the player later on if I need to demonstrate it to him. Professor FitzGerald is back in possession.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask Professor FitzGerald to respond briefly if he can.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps the question should be to ask Professor FitzGerald to comment on that.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Well it is but the Senator needs to say it not me.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I call on members to ask one final question each, starting with Deputy O'Donnell.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask the Deputy not to use the word "compromised". He could ask about effectiveness and whether it was operational.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: With respect to Professor FitzGerald, he would have limited information as to what any bank would have been doing over a two and a half year period.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: If there was a question, it might be: Had any of the financial institutions, in the lead up to the guarantee, engaged with Professor FitzGerald on what they saw or perceived or concerns they had in regard to an impending crisis?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: You have only a minute.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I will bring matters to a conclusion. The task of this inquiry is not just to examine the past and identify system failures or problems or discuss probabilities during that time but also to look to the future and ensure future modelling of financial assessments and risk are better dealt with. What lessons about modelling and forecasting in the Irish economy can be learned from the crisis?...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Professor FitzGerald for his participation in today's meeting. It has been very informative and valuable and has added to our understanding of the factors leading to the banking crisis. On behalf of the committee, I thank Professor FitzGerald for the extensive time he has given to the committee this morning and the preparation he put in beforehand. I know he did a lot of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (10 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: 609. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding fracking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5899/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Living City Initiative (5 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: 261. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme equivalent to the Living City Initiative to help sustain towns by encouraging persons to reside and invest in town centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5247/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: The committee is in public session. In session 1 we have a discussion with Professor William Black on banking policy, systems and practices. I welcome Professor William Black to the seventh public hearing of the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis. Later this morning we will hear from European Commissioner, Mr. Mario Nava. At our first session we will hear from Professor...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Professor Black for his opening statement. The order of questioners this morning is as follows: Deputy Joe Higgins will have 15 minutes and Deputy John Paul Phelan will have 15 minutes, and from then there will be six-minute rotations for the following: Deputy Eoghan Murphy, Senator Marc MacSharry, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell, Senator Sean Barrett, Senator Michael D'Arcy, Senator Susan...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Later today, in our second session, we will discuss the regulations set out in Basel I, II and III and the credit directives and so forth which are post-crisis measures established at the European level, particularly in regard to the eurozone. Does the professor think those measures are robust enough to protect us against a future crisis, going with his own metric of what he considers the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: This is the Deputy's last question for the moment.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I call Deputy Phelan, will Professor Black tell us the role external auditors have to play in what he has been discussing with Deputy Higgins? There is an agency that comes in and examines the bank's balance sheet in terms of risk concentrations and everything else. Surely it has some responsibility or is in a position to make a judgment on it.