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Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (27 Jan 2016)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...year of performances this year with one of his plays. I simply wish to thank him and say we are all the richer for his great contribution. I never had the pleasure or honour of meeting him, but I feel as if I did. I feel part of what he said, what he said for all of us, will stay with me and I hope I am the better for it.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...#HomeToVote could certainly give the Yeats line "I will arise and go now" a run for its money. The 72,000 tweets in the 24-hour period that crossed those two days was evidence of what people were feeling. It was a sense of responsibility, a sense of enthusiasm and the feeling that people understood that every vote would count, that their effort would count and would make a difference....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Oct 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...research back and can give a cogent answer allows the person to say that it was worth doing. It is a very small example of the fact the petitions committee is not that complex and that people can feel free to use this committee, if they have an idea they think would be relevant, given we can, quite promptly, come up with a solution. It is a good example and I would like to thank the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...Rock, which, clearly, you would be aware of. So is Mr. Moran wrong? I mean, lots of people have given evidence that, really, things started to get very tight August-September, really beginning to feel the tension by October-November, never mind then what happened when you had left. So, I'm just wondering, would you revise your view or do you-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And in a way does that reflect how it operated? Were you quite a, sort of, separate entity or did you feel very much linked to the activity of the bank as a whole?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And so when you would talk to your colleagues and say, "I've never seen anything like this. This feels different, this is different" and that was in when - October, November 2007?

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

Susan O'Keeffe: ...their business model to get an outline of the type of lending they did ... I got an understanding of what I felt the business model was. I went back to the chief executive and said I didn't feel ... there was an opportunity for us and I didn't recommend we pursue it. Is that ... do you have a memory of that meeting in 2006?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And do you feel that's a good recommendation in light of the fact that you were there for longer than that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...Mr. Lenihan was cross and said "I don't understand, why are they trying to rush me?" Now, do you know anything about, you know, why ... what was going on there in terms of the dynamic, in terms of feeling rushed? Was there a feeling all that time that pressure was coming? Or was it that the ECB, and others, were losing patience, that Ireland was not, if you like, getting on with the...

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

Susan O'Keeffe: So you didn't feel the need yourself to have any additional hands-on piece? You felt that that was sufficient?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: .... And when everyone returned in September ... and the first note we have, 3 September, that it then seems to have rushed into a crisis that then was ... I just ... I put it to you, that's what it feels like from the documentation.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...kind of assistance towards mortgage arrears, you talked about, you know, the problems that people were facing in November 2012 ... you were Secretary General of the Department by then. Did you feel you got the response you wanted, were you happy, or why did you intervene and say what you said if you weren't sure you were going to get a response?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did you feel your intervention made any difference?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----of enforcing penalty and being seen to challenge banks and to pursue them, does ... is that a ... do you feel that's a good addition to the way in which the regulator can operate in the financial system in Ireland? Because what we don't ... what we're really not sure of is exactly how many organisations, if you like, that you're actually responsible for?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. What is the strength of your feeling about things going wrong and so on? Did you ever write to anyone outside of your own circle, if you like ... of your own superiors ... so to the Department of Finance, to the Minister, to anybody?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did you feel, coming up to the night of the guarantee that the regulator's office, if you like, was now somewhat slightly detached from what was happening?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Do you feel your advice, your Financial Regulator's advice, was heeded, if, indeed, you gave specific advice? Do you believe your advice was heeded on the night of the guarantee, or do you feel other people had already made the decision?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (20 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...goes on to say, "I asked [him about the] focus on commercial lending [as a fit in] the ethos of the society as a retail financial services provider", and he said "this is a business line that they feel they can make return commensurate with their risk and for which they have skills and opportunities to capitalize on". So again, largely, those comments feel again to people not familiar ......

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I'm sorry, well, it's a question. Did you feel safer or not, because of the support of RBS?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...you were a member of the board, that there was sufficient level of discussion and challenge at the board about concentration risks at both sector and borrower level that you were facing? Did you feel that it was a good robust board?