Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Finally, Mr. Drury, would you ... you referred in, perhaps, the penultimate paragraph of your verbal evidence today about "gorging", we "gorging" in the boom years, "insatiable appetites", and I think you said, "I sat there myself and ate more than I needed." I'd like to ask you who you're speaking about when you say "we"? And also, I'd like to ask you would you include that as you describe it ... would you include your venture that was published in The Irish Mail some time ago to develop a golf course near Budapest, in Hungary, on foot of loans from Anglo and involving the compulsory purchase of local people's lands? Would you include that in the description here of being ... well, it's not your word, but excessive? Or it would indicate maybe what you said there.

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