Results 1,221-1,240 of 4,414 for speaker:Sean Barrett
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: DDO.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: What date? It's 13 May 2009.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Well, yes about NAMA.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes, thank you. The alternatives to NAMA that were considered and why was NAMA chosen? Thank you, Mr. Doyle.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: I echo the Leader’s sentiments about the sad loss in California of five young Irish people. I also note the President issued a statement from Italy on it and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has expressed his regrets and is assisting the relatives. I welcome the Taoiseach’s announcement yesterday that the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Heather...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: I welcome our visitors. One of the numbers we heard about in earlier hearings on this was that overhead transmission involves losses of between 15% and 20%. The longer the length of transmission, the greater the loss. Do we have the figure on that this afternoon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: I thank Ms Pyper for her reply. As an addendum, the Erne was a joint project from before many of the people in the room were born. Does it provide any distribution capacity in the west of the province? The ESB and the old Northern Ireland Electricity Service, NIES, co-operated on it for many decades. I imagine that there is a transmission network based in Ballyshannon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: I want to thank the visitors and will not delay them further. We will need to revert to our evidence on whether it is 15%, 17% or 20% of electricity that is lost in transmission. The longer the transmission line, the greater the loss. How does this compare with the 3% increase in bills that would result if some of the network went underground? We will do our sums on that the next day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: He is.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Thank you, Chairman. And I ... Mr. O'Reilly, you're welcome. I echo the Chairman's welcome for ... to you earlier. In a general question, you mentioned in your papers that you studied in Queen's in Kingston, Ontario. The World Economic Forum has rated Canada's banking system the soundest in the world seven years in a row. And, I think, in 2009 we were ranked 121 out of 123 countries -...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: And, in your 39 years ... I think, 1967 you went to the Central Bank was that-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: -----until 2006, did you see the corporate culture of Irish banking change from being one of the most conservative to being, as you said there, one of the most lowly rated of 123 countries?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Did ... yes, in your dealings with banks did you see them changing at all? Were they different from the ones you used to meet when in you were in the Central Bank first in 1967? And, what happened sub ... in 2006, '7 and '8?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: And yet the ... it cost us in 2007-'08 40% of GDP ... after Iceland, you know, the most expensive bank rescue any place. I mean, did you see anything that ... were their lending standards lower in the '80s than they were in the '60s?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Were you acquainted with the arguments over the McDowell report? Did you participate in that? He recommended completely separate regulation and the Central Bank and the Department of Finance didn't like it much and a row ensured.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Having won the battle, did ... was the war lost, because an organisation of 1,200 staff or so combined put only 35 of them into the prudential regulation of banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Sean Barrett: Do you know was there ever parliamentary authority for that? Because here, I've never heard in my short time, a law being brought in and you can ... be implemented by principles, there are no penalties; say, you can, kids can go to school or not if they like, you can drive fast or slow if you like. Was Parliament expressly consulted on this non-statutory regulation of financial...