Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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For someone looking in, would say that it does seem a bit unusual that you had Arthur Cox doing due diligence on Anglo, you put ... you've decided to recapitalise Anglo on 8 January; you wrote to this European Commission on 14 January; and then, the day later, you nationalised Anglo. So, it does ... why wasn't ... weren't you able to get to a point where, by the 14th, that you would have known from discussions with Arthur Cox that you were going to be nationalising Anglo anyway?