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

Okay. Mr. Duffy, you weren't obviously at AIB; indeed ,you weren't in the country at the time of the bank guarantee. You mention in your opening statement you were born and educated here, you worked as CEO for Standard Bank International. I'm aware that that was a Standard Bank plc who we might recall in 2009 suggested that Ireland and Greece would end up going into a bailout by the end of the following year, or out of the European Union. Unfortunately, one of them proved true. Did you keep an eye on developments in Ireland from your role back in Standard Bank International? Did you keep an interest in what was happening during that period?