Results 11,421-11,440 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I was giving a number of options.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: To ask the question again and a good few minutes have elapsed, in Mr. McWilliams's mind, what act should have indicated most to the political leaders of the day that the regulator and the Central Bank were not interpreting the facts?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The first act.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: As that was only one question and I have eight minutes, we must work better at this.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Four minutes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Yes it is.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. McWilliams said he was "slapped down by [his] own profession and the establishment". Did he mean journalists or economists?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Would Mr. McWilliams say economists therefore were largely complicit in pushing the "Let's party" agenda?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: To move on from that and similar to what Deputy Higgins may have been asking Mr. McWilliams, does he think that other than himself, were the media largely complicit in pushing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Would Mr. McWilliams say-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: He gets the message anyway.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The joint committee knows that Mr. McWilliams was not. However, I am interested in his view of others and of the industry. Was there a herd mentality in the industry that drove the partying?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is good.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: With regard to Economic and Monetary Union, EMU, I do not have the time to get into it now but perhaps other questioners will follow on.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It was where I would have liked to have focused more. In any event, should Ireland have joined the euro?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I thank Professor McDonough for coming along. What alternative to social partnership would he have used?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: What are the professor's thoughts on the relationship between the union leadership of the time and its membership?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I do not hear an alternative though. If negotiation is not the way, what would the alternative be?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Would that mean disputes, protests, lost days etc?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Professor McDonough said that on 29 September 2008, in the dead of night, Ireland desperately tried to signal for help but a cannon broke loose the ship and holed the ship of state below the water line. Can he expand on this? What could or should have been done when Ireland signalled for help on that night?