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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Kelleher, just to clarify, the CIF itself never donated to a political party or individuals.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: What about giving gifts?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Well, you ... say corporate hospitality, tickets to a match, a bottle of wine, that kind of thing.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Parlon?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: And the giving of gifts to TDs or political parties?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: That would've been a once-off?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: But the CIF lobbies on behalf of its members?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Are members free to lobby independently of the CIF?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Okay. And given the fact that lobbying is taking place by the CIF and by members of the CIF, you still did not think it was appropriate to have a protocol in place in relation to the giving of political donations? Did the CIF ever draw a correlation between the giving of political donations or financial contributions and lobbying for certain changes to tax laws, for example?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Okay. Have you seen Dr. Elaine Byrne's research? It's in the booklets that you were provided with. Page 106 to 107 in the first volume. And in it she states that between 1997 and 2007, 35% of Fianna Fáil's disclosed donations were from property and construction interests and 34% of the PDs' disclosed donations came from the property sector. Mr. Kelleher, why was your industry such a...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Why was your industry such a significant donor to the main political parties of government at the time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Would you be ... have been aware at the time of these donations taking place?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Parlon would you be aware as ... in your current role?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Kelleher, do you see any relationship between these donations, and the level of donations, and decisions taken by the Government that would favour the industry by way of tax reliefs or incentives?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Let's look at your budget submission, then, from 2001, which is in the documentation as well. Where's the reference ... CIF, page 183. Mr. Bacon was before the committee, Mr. Kelleher, and in 2001 we saw that a number of measures designed by Mr. Bacon to calm the rising house prices were reversed by the Government. Stamp duty for investors was cut and the tax on second homes was eliminated...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: And the evidence for the submission, where does it come from?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: For the submission that you made in 2001 or any budget submission, where does the evidence come from for proposing those changes?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Thank you. My time is limited so I've got to move on to another area. Mr. Parlon, just in relation to NAMA, if I may, you stated in your opening statement that banking was not a feature of the CIF's activities pre-2008, and you commissioned a report then from the ... Lombard Street Research which was critical of NAMA, and this is in core document, page 7. Where did the funding for this...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Was a subcommittee set up within the CIF?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (13 May 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: And it's purpose was to ... to what?