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Banking inquiry 'rocked' after lengthy row over senator's 'conflict of interest'
Angry scenes in the upper house after a claim that a senator has a conflict of interest, preventing him from serving on the banking inquiry, is later withdrawn.
SEANAD LEADER MAURICE Cummins has withdrawn a claim that an unknown conflict of interest would prevent a Fianna Fáil senator from serving on the forthcoming banking inquiry.
It follows a lengthy row in the upper house this morning and this afternoon after Cummins, a Fine Gael senator, said that Marc MacSharry could have a “conflict of interest” that would prevent him from serving on the probe into the collapse of the Irish banking system.
After the Seanad adjourned a number of times, Cummins has this afternoon withdrawn the remark, saying he had no intention of impugning MacSharry’s name. However, Fianna Fáil’s leader in the Seanad, Darragh O’Brien, said the foundations of the banking inquiry committee had been “rocked” by the controversy.
The row this morning followed a vote of the Seanad Committee on Selection last night which placed independent senator and Trinity economist Seán Barrett and MacSharry on the nine-strong committee.
Government efforts to put Labour’s Susan O’Keeffe on the inquiry failed due to the absence of a number of coalition senators meaning it does not now have a majority on the inquiry.
O’Brien said this morning that the decision was “valid” and “democratic” but it’s believed the government is seeking to overturn it.
Finana Fáil pushed for the Seanad to be suspended after Cummins raised the conflict of interest claim without elaborating on what it is. MacSharry said that “as a member of the House and as a citizen of Ireland I am entitled to some level of protection from the chair”.
MacSharry accused Cummins of “impugning my character” while his party colleague Thomas Byrne asked for the claim to be withdrawn saying it had “poisoned” the banking inquiry process.
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The Seanad was suspended a number of times until senators eventually returned and Cummins said he was prepared to withdraw his remarks.
I'm glad Maurice Cummins has withdrawn remarks about Marc MacSharry in Seanad. This might prevent structural damage to the banking inquiry
Earlier, Cummins had proposed that Barrett and MacSharry’s nomination to the inquiry be referred to the Committee on Procedures and Privileges given there had been a “general belief” there would be one government and one opposition senator on the inquiry and not two opposition members.
However he acknowledged that the motion before the Seanad did not explicitly state the requirement for one government and one opposition member.
“I am suggesting to refer the matter to the Committee on Procedures and Privileges and the matter will be investigated,” he said.
Prior to that O’Brien said that the lack of a government majority “would make no difference at all if it is to be an independent inquiry”.
“I am assuming the government will accept the democratic decision of an independent committee of the Seanad,” he said, noting that it was as far back as 1982 that a committee of selection decision had been challenged.
Fianna Fáil senator Terry Leyden said MacSharry was “a man of the greatest integrity” and claimed that the inquiry should not take place if his party colleague is removed from it.
Fine Gael’s Catherine Noone noted that the current composition of the committee means there are no women on the inquiry team, describing this as a “pretty damning indictment of politics today when it comes to gender balance”.
Senator Paul Bradford, formerly of Fine Gael and who voted for MacSharry’s inclusion, said that the Standing Orders of the Seanad stated that the committee was tasked with nominating members which he said was a “job of work which we completed”.
He said that the outcome of that process must be respected.
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@Ciaran: Yes it will. As with his Doonbeg golf course which couldn’t be given away – he bought it and brought employment to the area yet council refused to have erosion barriers placed on the beach like Ballybunion golf course
Helping Irish long term illegals in America will be way down his to do list
@John Fahy: Oh grow a pair. We do not need to run scared of the toddler. Remove the makeup and this is an old and ill man. I doubt he’ll make the full term. You think Trump holds more power than he does. He talks a big game, makes threats and achieves nothing. You assume that the corporations will all play ball and jump when he says how high. Just like his wall, it’s mostly bluster and as members of the EU we are not fighting alone. If anything Trump might end up creating more solidarity.
I’d worry far more about the climate he is creating. Dumbing down the discourse to an unprecedentedly stupid level, making attacks and threats against decent journalists seem acceptable. Add in his racism, misogyny, climate denial and the symbolism of having a convicted predator in the top job, and yeah, he can do massive damage there. It’s still quite amazing than an actual sex pred has managed to garner this level of support. Unthinkable not that long ago.
@Kieran Conroy: illegal as in undocumented and this topic has been an agenda since Reagan. From Kennedy to Ryan there has been a push to naturalise illegal/undocumented Irish individuals
@SerotoninWars:
Exactly.
No other country would allow someone who pardon’s criminals and expects to be exempt from all his own.
The worst Person(I can’t use the word President ) to ever wrangle his way into the W.H.
He,along with his troop of clowns will have the country up in arms in 6 mths.
Popcorn ready.
@Mary.E.: Agreed. The glaring problem with Trump and Musk and all their sycophants, is how allergic they are to basic facts. Like the multi-account frustrated men around here, they believe that something popping into their head makes it true. As fearful as I am about the far right and the creep of fascism, we have some hope. Trump’s ideas rarely ever survive contact with reality. The wall is the most obvious example. Nothing happened. They repaired a small stretch of tall railings and added a bit of fence! There is no wall. There will be no wall. Equally all of his tariffs and threats are likely to either dissipate or create untold pain in the US.
Interesting that the bully and pervert is now threatening to kill more innocent Muslim children today. It’s almost like he knows there’s a wad of promises he won’t be able to keep and is lining up a distraction already.
You are of course right. He’s not just the worst President in waiting, he’s one of the worst humans occupying the planet right now. A dangerous elite rich kid riling up the gullible. It’s truly amazing they think the most transparently selfish man on the planet cares a jot for people he views as ‘losers’. Oh well, they’ll just have to learn a painful lesson. Although it’s highly debatable whether they’ll have the wit or savvy to understand the lesson on offer.
@John Fahy: Simon would be the Fr Dougal of the Fr Ted & Fr Dougal leadership duo.
Mrs Doyle is also due back on stage with her “go on, go on, you’ll have another hate speech bill won’t you. Go on, go on, sure what harm can it do”
@SerotoninWars: one of the great, if not greatest, USA Presidents.
MAGA- then we have non entities, Harris, Martin, McEntee, O’Gorman etc.
living off the backs of taxes paid by USA companies.
@Billy Joe: Oh behave yourself. It’s a cynical land grab of the imagination and comprehension skills of the masses. They bandy noble sounding terms like free speech about. As if they want some pure factual conversation happening. It’s about destroying any sense of reality where we have certain facts as a baseline. Verifiable, researched, evidence based stuff. It’s about destroying this idea and flooding the space with bad actors and propaganda to manipulate people into supporting the worst people imaginable, acting against the best interests of humanity as a whole.
Trumpism wouldn’t have worked even 25 years ago. The a la carte world of believing any old nonsense because it feels good is manna from heaven for these guys. You are being played by highly organised groups and manipulators who don’t care a jot about the noble aspect of free speech. They just want a completely deregulated media and social media space where they can spread lies and propaganda to their hearts content. Divide and conquer.
@SerotoninWars: The current administration failed to provide a better alternative to what you have just ( pretty accurately) described. And that is why Trump is getting another term of office.
Clearly, the democrats’ agenda does not jive well with the American electorate, so much so that they would rather see a scoundrel like Trump in the Oval Office, and have his cronies dominate the house and senate.
The solution is simple; provide the electorate with a better alternative.
@FlipBip: i thought you were being facetious with your first comment, but after your second, probably not……So, I don’t think making such a remark on the 2FM breakfast show constitutes US election interference
@Kevin Kerr: The hypocrisy is comical! If one insult from a country thousands of miles away = election interference, is there even a word for what Trump does?! He spends half his day insulting, belittling and firing insults out at anyone who doesn’t bend the knee. All in an effort to distract from his lack of intellect, and of course, to grab another chance to wave his orange makeup caked mickey around for a bit again!
@William O leary: Harris is a very average politician with zero credibility. He has surrounded himself with people from Irish MSM & he comes out with gaffes like this or his Kanturk moment. Arrogant & can’t control his mouth or his impulses, Trump will make him pay for that comment.
The main problem that I have with Harris saying that is if Trump said a similar thing, everyone knows right well that the media over here would throw a hissy fit at how Trump is “denigrating Irish politics” and how he’s “behaving in a manner unbecoming of a President.” I’d bet my bottom dollar that Trump wouldn’t be allowed to simply walk it off and say he was “just joking around” when speaking about Harris if he threw a verbal jab back. In any case, the reason that this still hangs over Harris is because it was extremely unprofessional to begin with to go onto a major radio station and start insulting the incumbent leader of one of our main trading and business partners.
@Frank O’Hara: because he has faced so much censure for the literally hundreds of people he has called names in the past. Oh wait, literally nothing has happened to him as a result.
@Setanta O’Toole: You must be living in an alternate reality buddy. It’s clear to anyone who follows the news even slightly that members of various cable television networks enjoy picking out and giving out about even the slightest thing that Trump says online. Every single insult or joke that he’s pulled out has been scrutinised by a wide variety of different channels. By the way, if you had even basic understanding of the US Constitution, you would know that Trump can’t be censured by Congress for throwing insults because they are protected under the First Amendment.
@Frank O’Hara: oh wow, he gets a dig out off a few news channels. What politician doesn’t? Now do the right leaning media’s treatment of Biden for the last 4 years. you carry on like a juvenile idiot don’t expect it to be ignored in the press. You saying he ‘wouldn’t be allowed’ to get away with something like this is laughable. By who? Thanks for informing me about the first amendment, might go for my citizenship and run for congress so I can call you a bollocks with impunity.
@Setanta O’Toole: Boo-hoo buddy, do you want me take out my tiny violin for you? There are 8 major news channels that are Democrat-leaning and there are only 2 major news channels that are Republican-leaning. 88% of journalists donate to Democrat politicians. All you are doing is engaging in pure whataboutism and you know it. I didn’t ask you about what Biden’s relationship with the media was (very cosy as you know), I asked how you can seriously believe that Donald Trump gets a fair shake when it comes to the news coverage that he receives. I don’t know whether you know basic maths, but 88% is a bigger number than 12% and 8 is a bigger number than 2. It’s pretty clear though that you’re quite the clown considering you think that Congress could have censored Trump!
@Mary.E.: Why not? He is, very soon to be, the leader of the biggest and richest country in the World. As for Harris…. Nobody outside of the 26 has heard of him.
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@Billy Joe: More lies. The Irish stance on the Palestinian situation, on its own, has been covered globally. Harris quoted, interview extracts etc. He’s even been on your beloved looney right misinformation channels around the globe.
@Frank O’Hara: Trump says and does stupid things unbecoming of a president constantly Frank, you and I both know this even though you won’t admit to it. Even if a news channel reports on it factually with no bias it looks negative. News channels don’t need to spin stories on him negatively to make him look bad, he does it himself through his words and actions. Also, if you don’t think he plays up to the perceived bias against him in the media, you are very naive. Fostering a siege mentality against the media and the democrats is how he has gained a lot of his support.
@Mary.E.: you are out of touch if you think that dude has short memory and now you will see that Harris lad hoping trump doesn’t throw a hape tariffs at Ireland because of his short sighted comments.
Between this and the occupied territories bill ( which will do SFA for Palestinians or peace) they’ve really backed us into a corner. I was less than enthused by the announcement from various politicians over the weekend that Ireland can expect there to be a fair bit of economic turbulence ahead. Trump is brittle and doesn’t forget a slight. His team are looking for ways to take our FDI billions back to the US. Let’s not make it easy for them.
@honey badger: “Irish people want to know our hands are clean in this conflict. We don’t want to be complicit in any way with illegal Israeli occupation. We stand beside the Palestinian people who have suffered long enough.”— Bríd McGrath, head of Public Affairs at Oxfam Ireland.
@Brendan O’Brien: Good for you, Brendan.
In the meantime, I’d rather not see us commit the largest act of national self harm in our history for zero gain anywhere.
@Brendan O’Brien: We have given millions to Palestinians over the years, in humanitarian funding, aid, built water treatment plants, etc. There are ways to show solidarity that doesn’t put an even bigger target on our backs with a Trump team that already has us in its sights. Costing ourselves billions for zero gain is definitionally self-harm. Solidarity isn’t going to fund our health services etc.
@honey badger: well since you don’t give a dam about our national interest you’ll be alright. Just remember when you took Israel side against your own president who spoke the truth and our own armed forces when Israel threatened them and accused them of harbouring terrorists. All you are is a hy po crite trai tor.
@Brendan O’Brien: You and most of our political parties are already doing that now. Knock yourselves out. The OTB will cost us billions. Find any way that continues to show your solidarity that doesn’t give Trump and his team the tools to take us to the cleaners. He needs little excuse. You know I loathe Trump, but this would be an unprecedented act of national self-harm. For absolutely no gain anywhere for any one.
@honey badger: He needs *no* excuse. His ‘MAGA’ strategy is already in place.
‘Many within the new Trump administration’s appointees also see Ireland as a problem. Trump’s trade tsar Robert Lighthizer has said “Ireland gets a substantial part of the tax revenue that would normally be due to the US government” and this is a “transfer of wealth from us to them”. Howard Lutnick, nominee to head the US commerce department, said “it’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense … When we end this nonsense, America will be a truly great country again.”’
@Brendan O’Brien: Call it out until the cows come home. Wonderfully bizarre how empathetic you are. No ulterior motive whatsoever, just an angelic modern day Jesus Christ. But don’t put Irish people at risk in the process. Why not head over to Palestine and help them fight if you’re so passionate and involved? Didn’t think so.
@Brendan O’Brien: So we should be calling out Hamas who have genocide of Israelis as their aim (without having to change the definition), instead our muppet leaders reward them by recognising a non-existent state with no defined borders, capital or even government. Listening to Trump today he’s in no mood for kidnapping terrorists or their apologists (and as not one Palestinian in Gaza has come forward with information on the whereabouts of a hostage despite the $5m reward then they are just as complicit, as they were when celebrating and disrespecting hostages and the dead on the streets of Gaza on Oct 7th). What a shame Biden was so beholden to the Squad, this could’ve been over in weeks with a strong US President.
@Ger Whelan: Our own president does have an unhealthy attraction to certain tyrannical regimes and has clearly shown poor judgement and lack of impartiality in some recent ramblings.
@Brendan O’Brien: The only genocide that is taking place is in Somalia, principly caused by Arabs striving to take full control of the country and its wealth
160000 killed and 11 million displaced.
You haven’t said a word about it, so I can only conclude that you’re a paid Palestinian agītator.
@FoxyBoiiYT: Trump supporters almost always enjoy trolling. So they’ll claim anything as long as they ‘think’ it will annoy non-cult members/non-trolls. This is why they often claim transparently contradictory, or entirely opportunistic things. There’s no getting through to true believers and trolls’ motives make them immune to rational arguments.
The far-left are running scared. President Trump will wipe the floor with them. They have more reverse gears than Italy from 1939 – 45. Game over. MAGA
Trump snowflakes will really get their knickers in a twist about the most minor of things while turning a blind eye to the most vile – a truly weird bunch.
Trump is a gowl but he is the gowl we need right now, there are a lot of Americans living in and working in Ireland and the Uk, don’t think Trump or any Americans are enthused about their allies and expats living under censorship and propaganda. I hope he sanctions our governments.
@Setanta O’Toole: It’s well known that that republicans are appalled by how Britain has been taken over by immigration, they could within a couple of decades be the only nuclear armed Muslim majority country which is a threat to the US directly. Also the disdain for communism in America is still fresh and I’m
Sure many would have something to say about the EU making us feel guilty for being patriotic and calling us racist because we long to keep our identities and cultures alive.
@Freda Peeple: Yes, lets look up to those running a country literally founded on extermination of the native population and their identity and culture as great arbiters of preserving culture and identity. Your paranoid fantasies about Muslims taking over the UK and launching a Nuclear strike at the US has no basis in fact either. You might want to look at how prolific the US has been with drone attacks and civilian casualties in Muslim majority countries in the Middle East over the last two decades and reassess who is a bigger threat to who.
@Setanta O’Toole: It was actually Europeans who founded America and slaughtered the natives, worth noting as a European I’m assuming if you’re pointing fingers. The UK will be Muslim dominant in our life time so it’s not Paranoid at all to worry about how that might alter a nations stance with its allies. and yes the Uk and the US amongst others have caused carnage in the Middle East I’m not disputing that, do you reckon they might have a thirst for vengeance?
@Freda Peeple: your second post says 2 decades, your next post says “in our lifetime” – now I don’t know what age you are, but I suspect you’ve got more than 20 years to live. So which is it? Hint: it’s neither – most reliable forecasts (and of course these are forecasts, which I wouldn’t dream of presenting as fact) predict that Muslims will make up 15 – 20% of the UK population in 25 years. Any predictions after that time are so fraught with uncertainty that thy are pretty much worthless
@Freda Peeple: Where did I imply that it wasn’t Europeans? Why is it worth noting? I don’t have any ancestors from any of the countries who engaged in the slaughter and colonisation of Native Americans, so I’ll point fingers all I like thanks. Do you have any data or evidence to show that a Muslim majority country with nuclear weapons would be any greater a threat to humanity than a western one? Pakistan has plenty. However, the only country that has ever used them is the one that you are claiming is under the most threat from them, with no evidence or precedent to back it up.
@Freda Peeple: Hmmm… In gowl stakes ..Simon might well be described as a ‘bit of a gowl’, as opposed to Trump who is an ‘awful gowl’ .. trust me.. there’s a world of a difference…
There is one thing we know for a fact about Trump. He is a convicted felon and a four time very successful bankruptee. No one, it appears can prove his racial and misogynistic tendencies. Yet Irish Ministers and Taoisigh cannot wait to prostrate themselves infront of him and his hand selected yokels with a begging bowl and a bit of shamrock. Our standards internationally have been dropping a for while, but this is new low. This guy will use the 17th March to publicly insult and embarrass us (ministers and Taoisigh don’t do embarasment) and make us a laughing stock world wide. Meanwhile all our Minsiters and musical chairs Taoisigh will be bending over and taking one for Ireland
@Thomas O’Donnell: I despise Trump, but the reality is that more American citizens voted for him this time than the alternative candidates. 49% approx. of the popular vote and a 1.5% margin over Harris. So he’s their choice (as crazy as that is). Also, the reality is that other countries have to deal with Trump and his cronies, so they have to act like adults and keep relations as constructive as they can….regardless of the awful gowl’s own 8 year old toxic vengeful mentality.
@Numinous20111:
Trump had the American economy roaring, and not a war in sight. Then Biden and the Democrats got in, destroyed the economy, started a proxy war with Russia, gave billions to Ukraine and Israel while their own are on the streets. You keep believing msm. Funny how a wee bit of false tan can upset some people.
@Father Ted: Well, you see, there’s the small issues of what Trump said publicly, which torpedoes your cookie-cutter pro-Trump argument. Then there’s the other small matters of the statistics, reports and public announcements of Trump’s administration between 2017 and 2021. Then there’s the statements of Trump’s administration officials……you get the idea. You are at best pulling arguments out of thin air. The factual information from Trump and the GOP contradict you. Pick up a booby prize on your way out.
@Father Ted: the American economy is currently booming, and it wasn’t ‘roaring’ spontaneously the second Trump took office in 2017. He was riding the coat tails of the steady growth under Obama, and he had tanked it by the end of his term. The wars weren’t in sight because he signed legislation so he didn’t have to report on them. He bombed Syria, he backed Saudi’s to the hilt against Yemen, his drone strikes in 4 years doubled Obama’s in 8. Russia started a war with Ukraine, and if you think that the backing of Israel is going to stop when Trump takes office you are even more clueless than I thought.
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Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 88 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 69 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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