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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding spinal surgery at Crumlin Hospital in Dublin 12, for a child (details supplied) in County Cork; when the child will be scheduled for the procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27950/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: 252. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an official in her Department has been appointed to co-ordinate the public consultation and implementation of the Brú na Bóinne draft management plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27768/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: 253. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next meeting of the Brú na Bóinne steering group will take place. [27769/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: 254. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the local community will be involved in agreeing a policy on planning and development in the Brú na Bóinne area in County Meath. [27770/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: 255. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will make public the submissions received by her Department on the Brú na Bóinne draft management plan. [27771/15]
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: Yes, thank you very much, Chair. You're very welcome back, Mr. Cowen. Just to pick up on where Deputy Higgins started on the financial crisis cell, established at EU level in October 2008. Just to clarify, the agency of the State responsible for managing the transmission or receiving of information to and from that group would have been the Department of Finance, presumably?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: The group, or the cell, was established after the guarantee decision, so, can you explain what other information might have been exchanged, as you understand it, between the Department and this cell, at EU level?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: You've outlined the rationale, as you see it, for the bank guarantee decision. Do you still believe today that that was the right decision, Mr. Cowen?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: And, do you believe now that that decision was made with inadequate, incomplete or, perhaps, inaccurate information?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: Was there a view on the night that the decision was made that no actual money would have to be put into the banks by the State? Was that the basis of the decision?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: Yes but what I'm asking is: did you envisage at that time that any money would have to be put into the banks when the decision was made?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: How do you respond to the view of Governor Honohan which was conveyed to this committee that even with the information available at the time, the decision, in his view, that should have been made was to take the two "failed banks" as he called them, Anglo and Nationwide, into custody in effect by nationalising them, seek to provide ELA for a period and try to achieve some burden-sharing? Now...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: Mr. Lenihan was advocating nationalising Anglo. Did he explain why he felt that would be a better course of action? What would have been the benefit of nationalising Anglo at that time, as was explained to you in the discussion you had with him, and, indeed, Kevin Cardiff seemed to hold a similar view? Nationalise and do what was the-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: Chair, very finally, can I ask to put up on screen the note of a telephone conversation you had with Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister? I have given the reference already. So this was on 30 September. So later on in the day after the guarantee had been announced, this is a memo by Dermot McCarthy of a conversation you had with Gordon Brown and it would appear to have been quite a...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: Thank you. Thanks, Chair.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: Thank you very much, Chair. Mr. Cowen, you say in your witness statement that the Central Bank Reform Act of 2010 has provided "a new and effective structure and brought further clarity to the roles and accountability amongst the regulatory and supervisory institutions of the State". So can I ask, in your opinion, to what extent did the banking crisis influence the changes made to the...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay. You referred earlier, Mr. Cowen, to the issue of corporation tax and efforts, perhaps, by others to put that issue on the table. Can you tell us, specifically, was this requested as part of the bailout negotiations ... that Ireland's 12.5% corporation tax rate would be changed ... or prior to then? Can you clarify exactly what happened on that issue?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: But was it raised by others?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: At what level - ministerial level, official level?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Michael McGrath: So that would be ECOFIN or Eurogroup? And that would have been prior to the negotiations?