Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. William Beausang:
No, not in specific terms. But, I mean, my impression is that whatever was in that document was informing the drafting of the statement that I was working on, because the ... when you look at that footnote at the bottom of the draft Government press release, the document I circulated with my written evidence, it's got a level of detail that, you know, wouldn't have been available to me at that point in time in talking about long-term bonds, other than bonds constituting tier 1 capital, so I was drawing on some other information. I don't remember talking to anybody other than the press officer, so, that information could ... may well have been drawn from the draft ... the other draft that was in circulation that evening.
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