Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

And then, coming up after the guarantee, did Minister Lenihan discuss with you or were you aware subsequent to the decision of the guarantee, who was ... who supported the decision? Had the Minister, Brian Lenihan, been overruled by the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen? What were the respective positions of the then Secretary General of the Department of Finance, Mr. Doyle, and Mr. Cardiff who was head of banking at the time within the Department? And did the banks themselves bring a document, a guarantee document, in on the night of the guarantee to the Taoiseach's Department for those meetings?

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