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

Can I ask you ... when I asked Kevin Cardiff, who was here, of who lobbied for the guarantee, your name popped up. He mentioned that at a meeting on 23 May, you suggested to him that a broad statement would be made. Can you enlighten the committee as to, first of all, your recollection of that conversation with Kevin Cardiff? What was your motivation for saying that to Kevin Cardiff? Had anybody spoken to you prior to that or subsequent to that? And in your opening statement you talk about the engagement you had with senior bankers, which was more at an authority level, but can you also discuss some of the private engagements you had, particularly in August 2008, with the very senior bankers in Anglo Irish Bank?