Results 1,461-1,480 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You were on the McDowell group that reached the decision about the new Financial Regulator. The decision was that there would be ... that the Financial Regulator would be separate from the bank. That was what they were asked to look at that and that's what they came back with. And I'm asking, do you think ... that's not what happened in the end, of course. Do you think that the governance...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Why did you not agree with the conclusion of the report?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Why?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Would you say or not that the resulting body that was set up then in 2003 was a creature of the Department of Finance?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: On page 61 of Vol. 1 of your book of evidence, Mr. Considine-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Vol. 1, page 61.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: It'll come up ... Vol. 1 of your own book.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Tom Considine, TCO.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: It talks about the Department facing a specific skills challenge, and I'm sure you'll recall this, with a broad spectrum of skills requirements between others in banking and finance and it says, "At present, the main-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----skills in short supply are economic modelling along with banking, accounting and legal skills." Now, we see from the Wright report that emerged much later on that there was still shortages of skills at the Department of Finance and various people raised it in their own evidence to the Wright report. So, I'm wondering what did you do in your tenure to try to address that skills shortage...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But it obviously wasn't enough.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: It obviously wasn't enough.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: In the time that you were in the civil servants and attached to the Department of Finance, and as you came close to the end of your period of time, would you have said that the centre of power, for want of a better expression, shifted at all from the Department of Finance to the Department of the Taoiseach or was it more equal, or was there any change. Because, arguably, people would've said...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: As financial markets became more global, particularly, say, up to the time you were finishing at the Department of Finance, what impact did the International Financial Services Centre have, if any, do you think, on the way in which the Department of Finance operated and, I suppose more importantly perhaps, in the way the Financial Regulator and the Central Bank operated? Did the presence of...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Just to go back, if I may, to finish, when we talked about the various sorts of tax breaks and they broke down into, you know, very specific ones for car parks and nursing homes and holiday homes and guest houses and seaside resorts and so on, did you think yourself, when you saw the range and the depth of those tax breaks, did you have an image in your head of what might happen, literally,...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thanks, Chair. When Minister Lenihan asked you to be a public interest director for Bank of Ireland, did he ask you to waive the fee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you consider waiving it given that you would ... only got the job because you'd been ... you had the lifelong career that you'd had and that you were already receiving a pension?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No. Did you ever yourself have any informal meetings with representatives of banks or building societies or property developers in your role as Secretary General? Would you have ever met them for a cup of tea or a chat or a briefing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (17 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you meet with any other former secretary generals or other members of the Department ... former members or members of the Department of Finance for any briefing prior to this hearing?