Results 941-960 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But the private clients themselves, did they come from a range of backgrounds?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Could financial institutions be ... the ... the expression "cashing out", could they have been cashing out through buying properties?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: In your statement, Mr. Quinlan, you refer to "Ireland Inc", I think, was the expression you used.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. You were "a big believer in the idea of "Ireland Inc"."
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: How ... how do you believe your ... your business model and your business benefited Ireland Inc?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: What contribution do you believe developers and people in the business ... what contribution did they make to the ... to the crisis that we had?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, but I ... I appreciate that they got it wrong. But, in an Irish context, given that you would have known a lot of the key players, I'm sure, at the time - if you didn't know them, you knew of them - you understand the idea of a developer ... the ... the ... property developers emerging as a group of people in the last 20 years. What contribution do you believe they played ... you...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And ... and you said yourself you didn't foresee that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Is there anything that you regret, that you might have, if you like, contributed? In all the deals ... I'm not asking you about individual deal, but in all the deals that you did and all the business that you did, do you regret anything that you did that might have contributed?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Finally, what impact do you believe that NAMA has had on the property market in Ireland? In the time, I know ... I appreciate that you're not active in the way that you were but I've no doubt that you've been following and would have ... well, perhaps you have an assessment of what impact NAMA has had for people like you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That's fine.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That's fine.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Three short questions, Mr. Quinlan, thank you. It was reported at the time that you were looking to buy INBS, I think in conjunction with RBS, that's anyway how it was reported.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And what happened?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Because?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. You obviously dealt a lot, as we've discussed, with high net-worth individuals. And I suppose, maybe, is it fair to say I think you were reported as having bought a property for your own use in 2006 for €25 million-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, I'm just asking. It was reported and Mr. Quinlan doesn't have to comment if he doesn't want to. You know, was that, were you able to do that because of the success you'd had? And is that correct actually, that you did purchase those properties? I'm again not always relying on everything I read.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. That's fine. That's fine. And, finally, again in relation, you've mentioned a couple of times the Four Seasons purchase, the hotel. And again that was reported as ... because of the tax breaks that surrounded that particular deal, that the tax saved, if you like, or lost by the State, depending on which way you look at it, was estimated at just under €20 million. And again I...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Indeed, but did the relevant tax laws at the time allow you-----