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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Therefore, it was a collective theft from the Irish people by the banks. It was a fraud. It was all sorts of thing which can be described within the law, yet they seem to get away with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Did the Central Bank talk to the auditors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Do the witnesses know if the Central Bank had spoken to the auditors of these banks or to professionals? This is just to see if these highly educated, well-paid people came across evidence at an early stage to make them think there was something wrong and they ought to report it. Do the witnesses feel this should have been reported?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: These are the same auditors who were there when the banks went bust.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Who audits the governance compliance within the banks? Who would the Central Bank expect to have seen this issue? Who would it have expected to have reported on the issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Did the Central Bank ask them? Does it have any formal reports from the banks to say that it is short of governance here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Did the Central Bank raise it with the auditors? Did they tick any box? It is amazing, if a customer ticks the wrong box on this tracker issue, one is penalised - we heard the case of one woman who ticked the wrong box - but if the bank ticks the wrong box, that seems to be okay. Did the auditors report anything to the Central Bank about governance or did the Central Bank ask them anything...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Has the Central Bank any message for the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance before they meet the banks? Is there anything it would like to say to them with regard to legislation for the future or for the present that the Central Bank has come across and that might be short in respect of giving the Central Bank some muscle to deal with these people?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: We understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: What action can be taken by the legislators here or by the Central Bank to bring this matter to an early conclusion? What can we do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: We will return to this. We might take a break.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: As there is a vote, we will suspend the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: I apologise to the witnesses for the delay. However, with new politics and the voting block, such delays cannot be avoided. I invite Deputy Pearse Doherty to begin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Can Ms Rowland consult?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: I will take that as Deputy Doherty’s first question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: I thank Senator Kieran O'Donnell. I return to a question asked by Senator Conway-Walsh about whether there are dissenting voices. Ms Rowland said she cannot answer that. The Senator was not asking for names but simply if there was a dissenting voice or a number of dissenting voices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Why can Ms Rowland not answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Is the voice in Ms Rowland's ear telling her that? Why? I think it is a reasonable question. There were either dissenting voices or there were not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)
John McGuinness: Would the person giving Ms Rowland the information know?