Results 9,561-9,580 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I mean, the question is ridiculous?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Surely, I can have the protection of the Chair and of the legal advisers to the committee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: We'll move on. I've two further questions. Taoiseach, isn't it true that, from the outset, that you have potentially endangered the integrity of this inquiry by loaded comments about "the axis of collusion between Fianna Fáil and the banks?"
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. Final question. Why did you change the configuration of the original committee when the Government did not secure a majority?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did you contact the leader of the Senate from the United States, where you were on a trip at the time, and say to him, "Take MacSharry out"?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, and just very finally, can I ask, that in that context, did people in Fine Gael and Government parties, other than Senators, prescribe what was to happen in that process-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----such as yourself, for example?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Nine, and then you made it 11, yes. Why was that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: All right.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: To secure a Government majority-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----or not?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I mean, tell me now. If that's not the reason, it's not the reason but-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----I'm asking you: was it the reason?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Now that there's a majority for the Government, of course.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Oh no.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Everyone leaves their jerseys at the door, Taoiseach.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thank you, Chairman. Thank you, Taoiseach.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thanks very much, Chairman, and welcome Tánaiste and Deputy. Tánaiste, I've no questions for you until the end. So I just have very brief ones at the end for you. So they'll all be for Deputy Rabbitte. Deputy, you have a reputation for calling it like it is, if I might say. And can I ask you to identify-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Indeed. You might have underestimated it, maybe. The ... so as somebody who calls it like it is, could you say to me and just identify which pre-budget or post-budget ... sorry, pre-budget proposals the Labour Party proposed gross reductions in expenditure and net increases in taxation? Or were there any?