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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: He's not the only socialist as you know.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: But this is important, so I mean was it a case that the Construction Industry Federation had a man in every port for want of a better expression. So that if you were coming on a particular day to lobby in the Oireachtas, was it specific to the Government parties or did you see everybody?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, and in the main, did that tend to be all Opposition parties as well as Government parties or?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, so can you give those instances then in your period up to the end of 2007 or the end of your tenure, can you highlight for us the dissenting voices as it were, or those parties that may have been saying to you: "Mr. Kelleher, we need to cool this market; we are concerned that this is overheating; we are concerned there is a bubble building"? Can you give us instances, if there were...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Government and Opposition would have been promoting a pro-cyclical rather than counter-cyclical agenda, would that be fair or unfair to say?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Would there have been anybody advocating-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: You're being a bit hard on me now compared to some of the others.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Were there ... was there anybody at the time advocating an increase in stamp duty, as opposed to a decrease in stamp duty?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And, very finally, can I ask that ... the spatial strategy, I think most people would agree, would've been one of the drivers in the formulation of the National Development Plan 2006 onwards, as opposed to the one before. To the best of your knowledge, apart from submissions from yourselves and indeed many people in this room and elsewhere, in terms of the drawing up of that strategy, was...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Was there international assistance with that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thanks very much.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thank you and welcome gentlemen. Can I ask Mr. Cullen to confirm or not that Deloitte & Touche are an international ... they're a global company?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And is there a consistency of approach, standards, professionalism, ethics across all of those, or are they different from country to country?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: For example in auditing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Would it be fair to say or not that I suppose the level of thoroughness or intrusiveness for want of a better expression, internationally would be broadly the same in auditing would it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Who regulates your company, your profession?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The which? And in audit?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: CARB is the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board and IAASA then is the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority, isn't that right?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, so did these organisations review your bank auditing work?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Why? Are both organisations seen as one?