Results 921-940 of 4,414 for speaker:Sean Barrett
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Indeed.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: But those are the bank economists you mentioned. I mean-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: The ESRI dropped the articles by independent economists after the Morgan Kelly articles were published; they were dropped from the quarterly economic review. Did banks make any representation in your knowledge to have that series of articles dropped?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: You did shut down the Irish Banking Review, where ... it was a forum where economists and bankers used to meet.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: So you didn't have a problem with contrarian views in that journal?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Or at the ESRI?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: All right ... thank you, Chairman.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Thanks very much, and welcome, Mr. McCarthy, at this late hour. Did you send any reply to that request directly to the centre?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes. And did you know what the cost would have been had you accepted it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Thank you very much. Yes-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Thank you very much. Could I look at Vol. 2 of your own book, Mr. McCarthy, on page 89? What it refers to, Chairman, is a reply to Mr. Trichet in two lines, "I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter and enclosure of 16 October [2008] which will be brought to the Taoiseach's attention as soon as possible." And the date of that non-response, if you like, or just acknowledgement, is 30...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: So he did have a reply, reasonably approximate to 16 October.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Okay. Thanks. And, I recall ... I was present when you were chairman of the NESC, did ... the NESC reported, in 2004, on housing. Did it see the bubble happening? And did it see an excess concentration in the total economy on construction?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Okay, thank you. On the incorporeal Cabinet meeting, you've been with us it says here since 2.30 p.m., but I mean, I ... but, I mean, is ringing people, one after the other, at all a substitute for the, kind of, debate that you get around this table, and shouldn't we be careful about incorporeal Cabinet meetings?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: In the ... Vol. 2, on page 131, notes prepared for the visit of the aforementioned Mr. Trichet, it's on page 131, and the briefing, I think that that was for the Taoiseach, it says, "The global financial crisis took hold in August 2007." From my reading of the material, wasn't there an amazing failure to respond between August 2007 and the collapse at the end of September 2008? Were our...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: On the night of the guarantee, should we have combined it with some kind of due diligence, even that the banks which we were rescuing should have left the keys of those banks in the Taoiseach's office because Anglo went from, what, €1.5 billion to €30 billion eventually and wasn't nationalised until late January. NAMA found records ... were totally defective? Did some of them...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Sean Barrett: Should we drop the words "constructive ambiguity" and have "quantitative targets" for the efficiency of this sector so we'd know what was going on?