Results 10,241-10,260 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: So what tangible measures did you, as Secretary General, recommend specifically to counteract the loss of competitiveness in the early 2000s particularly?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: But exports kept falling, so it was not enough. Would that be fair to say, or not?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: In terms of taxation, is that what you mean?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Could you expand on that? Do you mean that the private sector needed to keep pay low or-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Was it the Department policy at the time, or view, that the private sector was irresponsible because it was paying too high wages?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, so. My time is limited. So am I right in saying what you're saying is that, you know, circumstantially we were losing competitiveness despite our best efforts, or despite any efforts that could be made. Is that what you mean?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. Earlier on, Deputy Higgins brought you to the core documents and we saw the submission from the IAVI, which was one and you said there were many, and horse-trading goes on and people make representations on behalf of their sector, and they are either taken into account or not, or in part or whatever, in your deliberations. Is that what happens?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, well, I withdraw than then but the submissions come in and you consider their contents. Is that what happens?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: So lobbying, I suppose, we might call that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. So a lot would come in would they, from all sorts of individuals and organisations?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I understand.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: So is it fair to say, or not, or is it the case that certain organisations have a higher weighting in terms of the attention that might be given, or the consideration that might be given by the Department and the Government?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: For example, IBEC, the unions?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. So it would be based-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It would be based predominantly on the size of the representative organisation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. Just ... and, again, my time is short, so quick answers if we can. Would you say that any one sector had an unbalanced impact on budgeting policy at that time, based on what was 1,200 last year in the numbers, in terms of lobbying that went on for that budget?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: But if you had to call it, would you say education had more of an input than property, or-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----the arts industry had more of an input than technology? I mean-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, so at that time specifically?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Health got more resources?