Results 16,261-16,280 of 26,228 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I've very little time left.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But the fact was, in 2006 you were told that the figure ... that the tax-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But 2006, right, and, effectively, all the ... capital gains tax had gone up by five times from ... from your time ... you came in 1997, stamp duty by three times, cyclical taxes by two times. So the question is: how can you stand over a situation, Mr. Ahern, where, effectively ... was it irresponsible, in the context of those level of unsustainable property taxes, to boost spending at such...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: This was property taxes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can I ask you one last question, Mr. Ahern? Page 21 and page 22 - they're interrelated. You said, ''I would have done things differently'', and you said, ''I did make mistakes''. Specifically, what would you have ... what mistakes did you make, specifically? And specifically, what would you have done differently during your term as Taoiseach?
- 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?