Finance committee
# finance-committee - Monday 25 February, 2013
Meeting of European finance chairmen to discuss life after the crisis
Labour’s Ciarán Lynch will today chair a meeting of the chairs of the Finance Committees of each of the 27 EU states.
# finance-committee - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
Governor of Central Bank to discuss state of economy with committee
The Oireachtas’ Finance Committee is to meet with Professor Patrick Honohan tomorrow, where they will discuss Irish banking.
# finance-committee - Sunday 13 January, 2013
Explainer: How Irish bailout documents keep getting leaked to the public… via Germany
Yet another batch of draft documents has made its way out via the Bundestag. Here’s the story of how it happens.
# finance-committee - Friday 26 October, 2012
Executives of three guaranteed banks to face Oireachtas committee
Representatives of IBRC, AIB and Bank of Ireland will all appear before the Finance committee next week.
# finance-committee - Wednesday 24 October, 2012
NAMA CEO expresses “anger and disappointment” in former employee
Chairman of the agency Frank Daly said the former employee removed data from NAMA including loans acquired by the agency.
# finance-committee - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
New chairman of Finance Committee ‘determined to get stuck in from day one’
The position had been held by Alex White TD, who has taken up the junior ministerial position vacated by RóisÃn Shortall.
# finance-committee - Wednesday 18 July, 2012
Poll: Should the Oireachtas be allowed to investigate the bank guarantee?
Two Oireachtas committee are vying for the chance to investigate the bank guarantee four years ago but should politicians be allowed to scrutinise the decision in the first place?
# finance-committee - Monday 16 July, 2012
Legislation may have to be put in place before banking inquiry
Legislation is a bigger question than whether the Public Accounts Committee or Finance Committee will hold the inquiry, said Deputy Alex White.
# finance-committee - Sunday 8 July, 2012
The banking inquiry… who’s going to carry it out?
Is there a turf war between the Public Accounts Committee and the Finance Committee on who’s going to do the digging? And what about revisiting the Oireachtas inquiries referendum?
# finance-committee - Thursday 5 July, 2012
LIVEBLOG: Ulster Bank CEO refuses to give up his bonus
The Ulster Bank CEO is answering questions from TDs and Senators about the ongoing technical problems at the bank. Follow the action here.
Ulster Bank chiefs set to be grilled by Oireachtas committee
The bank has refused to say if its CEO will appear before the committee.
# finance-committee - Tuesday 27 March, 2012
Central Bank governor before Oireachtas Finance Committee today
Patrick Honohan is due to answer questions over the Anglo Irish promissory note repayment and the emergency liquidity provided to banks during the crisis.
# finance-committee - Saturday 17 March, 2012
Buses, oil and Facebook passwords: the week in statistics
Plus: An all-time record for Irish exports, and how many of the government’s 109 TDs were in the DáÃl on Wednesday night…
# finance-committee - Thursday 15 March, 2012
Finance committee demands Honohan meeting as “urgent priority”
The Oireachtas finance committee formally writes to Patrick Honohan asking for a meeting before the promissory note payment.
Government lost committee vote ‘because TDs were locked out of the room’
Two Fine Gael TDs left the room to try and round up their absent colleagues – and were locked out themselves.
# finance-committee - Wednesday 14 March, 2012
Opposition TDs slam government absence during Dáil mortgages debate
The fallout from the committee defeat meant there were no members of either Fine Gael or Labour present to debate bank interest rates.
Government tastes defeat in committee vote over Anglo promissory note
The government loses a committee vote over whether to hold a hearing with Patrick Honohan – its first defeat since taking office.
# finance-committee - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
TDs off to Berlin to discuss 2012 Budget leaks
The Oireachtas Finance committee is heading to meet its German counterpart – the one that got our Budget in November.
































