Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

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

Okay. The opening chapter of that there deals with the biggest transaction in the history of the Irish property bubble, a transaction that totalled €1.165 billion. It suggests that the property that was purchased was purchased at 2 o'clock in the morning. A manager from Anglo landed with a bank draft for the purchaser ... to the ... for the purpose of the purchase of that property. Is that an accurate reflection of what was going on in Anglo - that Anglo was on call at 12 o'clock at night, landed down to the office where this auction - so-called auction - was taking place and produced a bank draft at 2 o'clock in the morning to allow this developer to buy the biggest valued asset in the history of the Irish property bubble?

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