Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Kevin Cardiff:
No. No, the Cabinet meeting on the day before was, I think, explicitly to discuss the budget which had been advanced, so it wasn't ever so far as I know intended to be a discussion of the guarantee. Indeed, just to underpin that, at the same time as that Government meeting was happening, there were meetings happening - I presume at the same time - there was a very lengthy meeting in the NTMA that day, where we were supposedly still working out the options, so it would not have made sense for that, you know, for the Government ... there was no paper put to Government about the guarantee or anything like it that night .... that day, because we had been instructed to meet the same day to finalise a range of options.
No comments