Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of John Paul PhelanJohn Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to turn now to ... again, an issue that was touched on by Senator D'Arcy and Deputy McGrath earlier. On the Dáil record in 19 January 2011, you acknowledged that meeting that took place on 24 April 2008, one of your final events, as you said, as Minister for Finance, where you attended that dinner as a guest of the board of directors of Anglo. I'd just like to get maybe a bit more detail from you as to what the purpose of it was. Why were you invited? Before you went, what impression did you have as to what the purpose of the meeting was? And at the meeting in question, or at the dinner in question, what was discussed? You said there wasn't any formal speeches, but the implication from that was that there was informal discussion, which you'd expect, and I would assume it was about banking issues. So, can you outline?

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