Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Brian Cowen:

No, I don't recall getting any contacts of that nature from anybody. When I heard that evidence, I presumed that, you know, this was John Hurley as the Governor out there checking with banks and checking with whoever knows something about financial markets as to what the situation was and what ... but I always found, when I dealt with John Hurley, you got the Central Bank position, whatever their synthesised position was, but I never ... he never told me, for example, who he was talking to beyond what the Central Bank position was.