Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Kevin Cardiff:
Okay. Let me ... let me run through them. NTMA, Merrill Lynch, some elements of the Department of Finance were advocating for a nationalisation of Anglo with guarantees for Anglo, because there was no point just nationalising it. If it was going to fall apart the next day, and I think, just don't get me wrong, but certainly some level of strong public statement of support for the rest of the banks in the same way as had already happened or was about to happen in France, Germany and a range of other countries. The banks themselves came in and they said, "Deal with some form Anglo and ... or Anglo and Nationwide and give the rest of us a guarantee." Now, why I said "No" to you is that and is that I don't believe it is particularly likely that they wanted Anglo and Nationwide to fall apart that day. So they must have known when they advocated a guarantee for themselves that whatever was going to be done with Nationwide and Anglo would either involve a guarantee or amount to a guarantee. Because-----
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