Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

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

Okay. We may come back to that, that issue later. Mr. Cardiff, you, you say in your statement, in relation to the Minister for Finance, that he didn't trust his ... at least one of his Cabinet colleagues, in terms of keeping information confidential. We know from evidence we have before the committee that Minister Lenihan wrote to the Attorney General in relation to the nationalisation Bill and asked him to circumvent the normal procedures where he would seek approval for that before Cabinet, before he would go to the Attorney General. Did Minister Lenihan confide in you who he didn't trust, and therefore these issues weren't discussed at Cabinet? And can you inform the committee if, if that individual or individuals were, were named to you?

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