Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am also here to try to help the inquiry. I am sorry we now appear to be at loggerheads. I am trying to get the facts. Professor Honohan is here to discuss his report, the Honohan report. He stated that the only evidence he found, written or oral, was the note. I asked him whether he asked any of the other nine or ten individuals, including the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance and the Financial Regulator, about the note. He has confirmed that he did not speak to anybody else but gave the impression at the previous hearing that he spoke to Mr. Cardiff and Mr. Doyle. He is now saying that one of those conversations definitely did not happen and the other probably did. I am asking the question because, in the Governor's words, the only evidence that there may have been knowledge that there were substantial losses was not, in his words, investigated by him for his report. That is what I am trying to find out.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.