Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Sale of Promissory Note Bonds: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Diarmuid O'Flynn:
No. We produced a report on it afterwards. I am not the most diplomatic of people. We had been due to meet Mr. Rodriguez, the head of ECB delegation here. I believe his father died that week. When we went to meet the two men, I expressed my disappointment that we were not meeting the senior person, which, to me, reflected bad manners on their part. One of the men who did most of the talking explained to us that he was senior to the other fellow. He was the most senior official. We have not lied about anything, but they did not want their names to be used. I explained that we were producing a report on the meeting with both the Central Bank and them and he said it was okay, that, by all means, we could do so, but he asked that we not mention their names. Ms Fiona Fitzpatrick was there with me. That is a significant point. When he said it was would be very difficult, we mentioned that it would not be impossible.
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