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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Ms McGrath and her officials. My focus is local, on my own constituency and specifically, Limerick city. I ask Ms McGrath to provide a summary update on the position in Limerick. Various announcements have been made with regard to flood relief works on King's Island in the city. What is the time-frame for the completion of those works? It is a big issue in Limerick and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: What is the process in terms of physical works getting under way? What is the normal process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously, Ms McGrath with will respond in writing to the Chair. Will the Chair arrange for me to obtain a copy of that correspondence when it is received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is fine.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (29 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: 207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33269/15]

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: I commend this Bill to the House and welcome the fact that the Minister for Justice and Equality is in the House today for this debate. The fact that the Minister is establishing a new independent policing body is extremely important. It will enhance the role of An Garda Síochána, whose members do fantastic work on the ground, and it all comes back to policing services on the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Welcome back to Ireland Mr. Chopra. I hope you enjoy your stay. Just going back, if Ireland had sought a bailout programme earlier than it did, would it have provided a better climate for negotiations and burden sharing?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am doing it in the context, Mr. Chopra, that - the Chairman has already alluded to it – but that by the time it came we were bounced into a bailout. So if we had-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, I’m saying that you posed the question, Chairman. So posing it in that light, if we had gone earlier and gone voluntarily to the troika-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay, and if the Irish Government had sought, at the time, to unilaterally impose burden sharing on bondholders on failed banks, Anglo Irish and Irish Nationwide Building Society, what would have been the implications? Would the world have fallen in?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: So if the Irish Government had unilaterally imposed, we’ll say, burden sharing on failed banks, do you believe that a programme would still have been put in place?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did ... in your ... when you arrived in Ireland, you were required obviously to study the guarantee that was put in place. Did the guarantee put in place put constraints on the possibility of burden sharing? What type of guarantee would you have had a preference to have seen in place at the time?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: I suppose more particularly, Mr. Chopra, in terms of Anglo Irish Bank, if Anglo Irish Bank at the time of the guarantee had been separated from the herd, do you think it would have created possibilities for burden sharing at the time?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: You made a comment in your opening statement ... just two aspects I want to take up ... do you believe that it's within the gift of the ECB at this moment in time to put in place measures to alleviate the tracker book burden on the Irish banks? What would be the benefit of that? And, secondly, you made reference that the current construct around bank bailout funds in Europe is woefully...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: You might just comment on both of those.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have one final question - your thoughts on ... just one. Your thoughts on the ... I asked you about the funding that's there in terms of bank bailouts in Europe. You said it was woefully inadequate.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: And the final question, I suppose. You've spent the last four years in and out of Ireland.