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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do you feel it had lost its teeth over the previous number of years?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And how did he find the quality ... well, what's the word, the expertise within his own Department when he joined it in terms of dealing with what had been happening over the last year in terms of ... the last year or two in terms of the banking crisis, and generally what ... how did he find the level of advice within the Department? He appears to have been ... had a propensity to ring...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And I notice that David McWilliams was in on that ... was ... would have been another one he would have conferred with. And just, I suppose-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, and did ... did he ... when he wrote his book subsequently, how did the Minister Lenihan react to making public ... David McWilliams making public his deliberations with the Minister?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, it was actually, just one tiny ... just finally-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----and I know it's probably a very hard question but, with the benefit ... in your deliberations with Minister Lenihan, was there any area that he would have liked to have done differently during his period of time as Minister for Finance, or there were areas that he-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Herbert, prior to the guarantee, the late Brian Lenihan and the Department of Finance, was there discussions or concerns around the solvency of the banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And was there ... what was the ... he was sceptical and the Department was sceptical around the advice being provided by the Financial Regulator. What was the basis of that scepticism?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thanks, Chairman. Welcome, Mr. McDonagh. Mr. McDonagh, in your opinion, would the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank on the night of the guarantee have saved the taxpayer money and, if so, how much?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Anglo?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And when, in your view, do you believe Anglo was insolvent?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why March 2008?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Paddy's Day, yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: That's true, yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And, we'll say, on 17 June 2008, you were in correspondence, you looked for, effectively, I suppose, an indemnity from the Minister for Finance in terms of extending funding to, we'll say, deposits. Deposits to Irish Life and Permanent went up fivefold, from €50 million to €250 million. EBS went up two-and-a-half-fold, from €40 million to €100 million. Was that...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: What was the purpose of the letter?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And is that ... was that under the legislation-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----or was that an executive decision?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And was that the first occasion that you sought such a direction?