Results 9,541-9,560 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, but it's just I've watched an element of, you know, political manoeuvring over the last number of questions and I just want to get specifically to the facts.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: But just not in the manifesto?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, I'll move on there. Taoiseach, how is it credible for you and your colleagues, with clean hands, to criticise the previous Government on expenditure and taxation, when you called for more expenditure and less taxation? I mean, how is this credible? I mean, would your policies of the day not have led to an even harder landing in the crisis?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, "Yes" or "No"? I'd like it again, because I mustn't have been listening.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thanks, Chairman.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: As my colleague has said earlier, and he's outlined for you that those particular measures would have been a couple of billion. Nevertheless, your manifesto, policy and all of your line spokespeople and shadow Ministers of the day were calling for more expenditure and less taxation in all those Private Members' motions on animal health and all those vital issues of the time, nothing on...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----to a harder landing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: "Yes" or "No"?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, they wouldn't? That's fine. Given your criticisms about the social and recreational contacts between previous Governments and developers, the Galway tent which we have spoken so much about in here and so on, can you inform the committee if you have ever accepted hospitality from a developer in the form of transport by road or air?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I'll ask the question again. Did you ever accept hospitality from a developer in the form of transport by road or air?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No. I'm merely asking the question. Have you ever? So it's a "Yes or "No", I think.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I presume it does. I don't know. You tell me. Did you travel with developers? Did you travel with developers-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did they give you lifts?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did they bring you on planes?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: So is the answer "No" or "Yes"? I mean, it's a simple question, Chairman?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The basis for the question is, and we've been consistent, Taoiseach ... and I'm sure your advisers can tell you that we've asked these kinds of questions of everybody of a political nature in here, from all parties and none. So I'll ask the question again. Have you ever accepted any hospitality from a developer by way, as you put it yourself, a lift in a car, a flight on a plane, a lift on...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: No, I'm asking the questions, Taoiseach.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, I appreciate and note the legal advice. Having said that, Taoiseach, I'm putting the question the same way. "Yes" or "No", the affirmative or the positive, have you ever accepted hospitality from a developer by way of transport, by road or air?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Chairman?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Chairman?