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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Professor Ahearne said the European finance Ministers announced a co-ordinated response on 7 October but that undoubtedly Brussels and Frankfurt had sent a clear message to capitals weeks earlier that there would be no repeat of the Lehman Brothers debacle in Europe. Would Professor Ahearne like to expand on that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Professor Ahearne has been critical of Olli Rehn for saying the blanket guarantee was a mistake. Was that a fair assessment?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I have two brief supplementaries. In his opening statement, Professor Ahearne talked about the price-rent ratio as an indicator of a bubble. How important an indicator is it? Does it rank in the top three indicators? Is it something that needs to be scrutinised continuously?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (4 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: There has been some discussion in this context phase of the extent to which this crisis was home grown. Professor Ahearne wrote in The Sunday Independentthat the housing market began to turn sour around the middle of 2006, a full year before the global credit crisis erupted in August 2007. Can he give an opinion on the relationship between the international and domestic factors?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (3 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 621. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support changes in regulations and-or legislation to permit the introduction of new specialist tourism vehicles in Dublin (details supplied). [9285/15]
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank Mr. McWilliams for attending. One area the inquiry is obliged to examine is the relationship between developers and politicians. In Mr. McWilliams's view, is there a relationship between political donations and political decision making?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. McWilliams touched upon this matter quite a few times in his book, Follow the Money, and stated that politicians could not make decisions that might inconvenience builders and bankers. He proceeded to relate two stories, one about Bertie Ahern and the second about a golf classic hosted by Brian Cowen. Was he making an implication when he made that statement and followed it up by...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In his book Mr. McWilliams stated that, in the context of the 2007 general election, 71% of donations to political parties came from people involved in property development.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: This matter is interesting, particularly in terms of the idea for a guarantee that Mr. McWilliams was promoting and the fact that the actual guarantee that was implemented was different to that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Professor Edward Kane, who came before us previously, has indicated: A government’s willingness to rescue different firms lies on a continuum and is influenced by several variables. In particular, a firm’s access to political elites grows with its interconnectedness, geographic footprint, and the number of employees and creditors that can be persuaded to contribute on its...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does what Professor Kane talks about in terms of rescuing different firms bear any relationship to how Mr. McWilliams's proposal for a guarantee evolved?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: No, sorry. Mr. McWilliams had an idea which was not implemented in the way he thought it would be.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I come then to resolution measures. In his writings, Mr. McWilliams makes implications around some of the resolution measures that followed the guarantee, for example the design of NAMA.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Is it Professor McDonough's view that social partnership contributed to or played a role in Ireland's financial crisis?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I got the impression from Professor McDonough's opening statement that he felt that the unions had a choice in engaging in social partnership.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Is Professor McDonough's opinion based on some of the historical work that he has already done?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Could Professor McDonough expand upon the point he made on the lack of democracy in the ECB and central banks generally?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Professor McDonough regard that as a design flaw?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Professor McDonough believe that increased democracy can be brought into a central bank without bringing in political interference?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Feb 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Thank you.