Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Pat Farrell:

Yes. Well, I suppose, first of all, over the period of my time as CEO of IBF I dealt with, I think, three different Governments. There was the Fianna Fáil-PD Government. Then there was Fianna Fáil, Green Party and the PDs. And then there was the Fine Gael-Labour Government. My modus operandiwas the same in every circumstance. I developed a professional relationship with Ministers, with Oireachtas Members, with policy makers, with the senior civil servants and other civil servants, and other stakeholders that I had reason to engage with as part of my mandate. And my dealings with them was the same regardless of their political composition or direction.