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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-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Well then, explain to me, why did you, up ... in those years prior to the general election in '07 ... '05 and '06 and '07 budgets, why did you increase spending by such an exponential rate-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: -----above growth? Above growth?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Can I move on?

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

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

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

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

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

Kieran O'Donnell: -----if you were ... if you had it back again ... and you were back as Minister of Finance in '04 to '07 period, what would you have done differently-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: -----on the budgets?

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

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

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

Kieran O'Donnell: -----I'm ... my time is virtually up.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Just one small point. What do you say, Mr. Cowen, to the young people out there that bought houses during that period with mortgages based on encouraging ... with massive increase in the number of houses being built, there's now a negative equity, in some cases they've lost their homes ... what do you say to those people now during your tenure as Minister for Finance? What apologies-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I never said I had.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Can I just ... the Financial Regulator, Brian Patterson, former Financial Regulator ... he's in your time and he was in before us and he reported-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: He was chairman, sorry. Chairman, rather. Apologies. He said that only the Finance Minister could set goals and objectives of ... for the chair. Did you ever set goals and objectives for the Financial Regulator ... the chair of the Financial Regulator, the board?