Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Once again, Mr. Cardiff, welcome back before the committee today. As you have already made your opening statement in your last appearance before the inquiry, we will proceed directly to questions. However, there is just one or two issues that I would like to address first before we go into the formal questioning.

Mr. Cardiff, on pages 235 to 243 of your composite statement, you include copies of handwritten contemporaneous notes made on the night of 29 September 2008. You also include your own transcription of these notes on pages 231 to 234b of your statement. A substantially identical typewritten version of these notes, provided by the Department of Finance, was included in documentation sent to, among others, Mr. Dermot Gleeson, former chairman of AIB, in connection with his appearance before the joint committee. During his evidence to the joint committee on 23 April 2015, Mr. Gleeson disputed the accuracy of parts of these notes, as he says that remarks attributed to Mr. Burrows were, in fact, made by himself. The reference to this is the final paragraph, page 33, of Mr. Gleeson's evidence transcript. Mr. Gleeson subsequently repeated his assertion in correspondence with the joint committee dated 27 April 2015 and on 15 June 2015. Could you please verify the text of your own note and confirm that the remarks are correctly attributed to Mr. Gleeson?