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Report of the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Marc MacSharry

Senator Marc Mac Sharry was elected to Seanad Eireann on the Industrial & Commercial Panel in 2002. He was re-elected in 2007 and 2011. He has served as Fianna Fail Spokesman on Finance & Public Service, Health and Marine & Natural Resources. He has been a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee in each of these areas. He is a member of the Oireachtas Commission and a former member of the Forum on Europe.

In his career outside the Oireachtas he has been CEO of Sligo Chamber of Commerce 2000-2005, has worked in the export of Irish Meat products throughout the world with Celtic Foods Limited 1994-2000 and with the then Irish Permanent Building Society 1992-1995. He also runs a family estate agency in his native Sligo.

He is married to Marie and has 3 children.

The Committee

Ciaran Lynch (Chairman)

Pearse Doherty

Joe Higgins

Michael McGrath

Eoghan Murphy

Kieran O’Donnell

John Paul Phelan

Sean D Barrett

Michael D’Arcy

Susan O’Keeffe

Reference Texts

  1. Terms of Reference for the Banking Inquiry
  2. Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013
  3. Relevant Proposal to the Committees on Procedure and Privileges for Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann for the conduct of an inquiry
  4. Orders of Reference of the Joint Committee