Results 16,081-16,100 of 26,043 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did you abandon the export market?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did you abandon-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Sorry, yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Not from 2000 onwards , it was-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Very finally, you have no regrets about the-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: It's the same thing. You have no regrets about the policies you pursued in the 2000s around the property sector?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you, Chairman. Welcome, Mr. Farrell. Mr. Farrell ... this is reference, Chairman, to Mr. Farrell's book of evidence, page 27. You might put that up on the screen, please. And it relates to the Regling and Watson report and more particularly it relates around that the Regling and Watson, that: [The] setting of macro-economic ease in growing financial integration, bank managements...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And what was your annual budget?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And did that come from all the banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: In its entirety?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Well, in the limited time I have-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----what would you say were the two key things, differences that you brought in and their impact?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can I go back to just your role pre the crisis with the banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would you describe yourself as very much a hands-on type of CEO?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And were you representing the collective interest of the banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. Was there ... did you appear before an Oireachtas finance committee in July '08 - and I remember it because I was on the committee at the time - about the issue of the drying up of credit for the SME sector? That was the specific issue. Did you pre the night of the bank guarantee, consult with your member in terms of how they were doing, in terms of their liquidity requirements?...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Contact. The question of ... you're saying that you had no knowledge on the night of the guarantee. You were in in July '08. You were fully aware there was a problem with liquidity. You were representing the collective interests of the banks. Did you have any meetings or consultations with your members prior to the guarantee about the difficulties they were having? And did that lead, in...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was there any meeting where the banks would have come to you pre the guarantee and said, "We've a problem here, Mr. Farrell; we need you to represent to Government the difficulties we're undergoing", in your representation role?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (15 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would you have been making the Minister for Finance known, or the Taoiseach known, about the difficulties the banks were undergoing, pre the guarantee?