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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----on foot of increase in taxes which were around the property sector, which crashed in '08. Now, and you're being advised by your officials that it was unsustainable. The number of hospitals complete-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Therefore why did you put that level of spending?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: But your spending was on foot-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: But, Mr. Cowen ... Mr. Cowen-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: I'm trying to help you-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Cowen, Mr. Cowen, were those taxes, in terms of property sector, stamp duty and capital gains, were they sustainable?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: But-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Cowen, could you-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Just very quickly ... Could you explain to me then the rationale ... that the bulk of the increase in spending, you doubled the spending that was in '03, you doubled that in ... in '06 and '07, can you explain the rationale, why the bulk of that increase in spending was on the current side rather than the capital side? And was it some way linked into an impending general election in '07?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: What-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: No-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, no but-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Chairman will you allow me to proceed?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Chairman, please, am I here to ask questions or is it-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: The pro-cyclical nature of your budgets from, from '05 to '07, and the fact that you had this massive increase of expenditure, most of it around current ... much of it around tax and so forth and the current side rather than the capital side, how do you reconcile that much of that was based on the major increases in cyclical taxes in terms of stamp duty and capital gains taxes, around the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Just .. may I ask-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Why ... why-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----why did you ... why did you-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Why did you-----