Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Fintan Drury:

Well, I have already ... and the reason I asked you the question was because I think a great many ordinary people do accept that it is credible. But, as I said in my opening statement, there are a great many people who don't and who never will, no matter what they hear and who they hear it from. I regard myself as a pretty ordinary person. I regard myself as somebody who behaves in a particular manner and who has a code of ethics and standards, which you alluded to in your opening before you asked the question. And so the defence I'm offering of what I ... the account I gave you of what happened in Druids Glen is simply this: you either accept what I told you under affirmation as being a truthful account of what transpired on that occasion, or you don't. And I can stay here until Tibb's Eve, Deputy, and make the same point over and over and again, and I accept - I may not have said it in my opening statement - I have friends who find it lacking in credibility. So I accept that there's going to be a percentage of people who will say, "How could that have happened?" But the reason people say that is because of what happened subsequently, not because of-----

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