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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did Mr. McDonald consider, in terms of dealing with bankers and developers, that they felt they were invincible in that period?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously somebody is trying to contact me.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. McDonald consider, over that period, that certain people who were involved in the construction sector felt they were invincible in terms of the way they acted?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Let us say from Mr. McDonald's view of their behaviour, did they exhibit signs that they were invincible?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. McDonald spoke about the bankers. He said, "Bankers also played the role of touts for developers". In his experience, was it a feature around that time of individual bankers going into joint ventures with developers?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I refer to where the bank, in which they worked, provided funding. Was that a feature?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Were there procedures in place, be it with the banks in terms of their internal controls or the Financial Regulator, where one could not have a situation where they were both poacher and gamekeeper? I refer to where the individual banker worked within the bank.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: The question I asked Mr. McDonald was-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the banks have rules within their institutions where, effectively, they stated that bankers could not be involved in joint ventures with developers of which the bank provided funding?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: My final question is in terms of our inquiries into the banking crisis. What does Mr. McDonald believe was the single factor, in terms of his experience, that contributed to the banking crisis?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: From what time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Sorry.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will take up that point. I refer to our political system with multi-seat constituencies and note that Professor Farrell has come from the United Kingdom. In Professor Farrell's view, to what extent has our political electoral system impinged on or had an impact on the efficiency of Parliament?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: To get the type of change he seeks in terms of the efficiency of Parliament, what does Professor Farrell think of the models in which there is separation of power, such as one has in the United States vis-à-visthe President and Congress? Our system here effectively is a parliamentary system in its entirety, in that people must be elected before they can hold public office. In addition,...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: To take up another point, in essence Professor Farrell really is talking about the list system when he speaks about a European system. He is talking about having a list system alongside an electoral system. Is that his basic premise?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, the professor should pick one parliamentary model that in his view works.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: In that case, the professor should tell me one parliamentary system that in his view works.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much time have I left, Chairman?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: In the Irish context, which committee does Professor Farrell believe has been the most efficient?