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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: At that stage, had other countries contemplated a system wide guarantee? Were they both unprecedented moves?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The blanket guarantee is what one does when one does not know what one is doing.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In regard to Professor Honohan's knowledge of the intensive discussions that took place in September between the regulator, the Central Bank and the Department of Finance, which he wrote about in the report, does it come from interviews or documentary evidence?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The report notes that the documentary evidence was sketchy. I am trying to ascertain if he relied more heavily on oral evidence given retrospectively.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The report gives the impression that the meetings were under the de factoleadership of the Department of Finance and that the regulator played a less central role than might have been expected. Why was that? What was happening in the he room during these discussions?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Could we interpret it as being because confidence in them had been lost? If confidence had been lost, was sufficient expertise in the room at the time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: When Professor Honohan mentions the Department of Finance, is he referring senior officials alone or senior officials in conjunction with the Minister or other senior politicians?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The report concluded that eventually a broad consensus was reached that a guarantee scheme for all institutions was the best approach. There were no dissenting view in the room.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I have a question on the financial stability reports and want to get an idea of who was in charge of that process. The Governor talks in his report about some of the warnings being toned down in those reports and of important data on overvaluing in the property sector being left out and a focus instead on criticising Morgan Kelly. What was happening there in the drafting of those reports?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The Central Bank was driving through that process.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I think the Governor indicated that, perhaps, the financial regulator side was not contributing in a helpful way.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Decisions on redrafting and on leaving out what might be important information while including other information was all happening within the Central Bank and it left the board of the bank and was published.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (14 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 11 December 2014 and incorporating the taxation model outlined in that question if he will provide comparisons of the tax liabilities for individual PAYE workers between the current system, as per budget 2015, and the proposed model, for the following incomes: €20,000, €30,000, €35,000,...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Statutory Instruments (14 Jan 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 408. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address concerns regarding SI 541/2014 (details supplied). [49612/14]
- Fourth Report of the Constitutional Convention on the Dáil Electoral System: Statements (18 Dec 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: While I welcome the debate, I question its timing. The Constitutional Convention gave the issue two weekends; we are giving it 90 minutes at the very end of the term and as a result, nobody is here. This treats the convention's work unfairly because it put so much time into it and it is a serious issue. If we are serious about changing our political structures and systems and reforming the...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Dec 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Wright says in his conclusions that Ireland failed the test of prudent fiscal management. Thinking forward five or ten years' time, how do we know if we are passing that test without walking into another economic crisis?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Dec 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Passing the test of prudent fiscal management.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Dec 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: By implication, we would be failing that test if we were not doing that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Dec 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: In 2000 or thereabouts, things began to change and Mr. Wright has noted several of those changes in this report. He notes, for example, that while the economy continued to expand after 2000, the dynamic changed with growth being less export-led and depending more on domestic factors. From Mr. Wright's understanding, was this dynamic change an intentional change?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Dec 2014)
Eoghan Murphy: Had we begun to lose competitiveness at that point?