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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Apr 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Who informed you? What was the circumstance ... how were you informed there would be a blanket guarantee of all six?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Apr 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And they said it was the six institutions.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Apr 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: What response did the two banks give on the night?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Apr 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did ye say ye agreed or disagreed with it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Apr 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: One final question, one final question. If you had it back again, taking all the factors into account ... you were a banker of 40 years experience, what would you have done differently with Bank of Ireland?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: We're all apologising today, Chairman.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: I want to welcome Mr. Trichet to Ireland and can I just ... a couple of points on the bailout. The letter that you sent to Minister Brian Lenihan on 19 October 2010, and then the follow-up letter that you sent subsequently on the ... sorry, 15 October was the first letter and the follow-up letter of 19 November 2010, where you effectively requested the Irish government to seek a bailout, is...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Trichet, did you envisage in your letter when you wrote on 15 October ... did you envisage that Ireland would be going into a bailout?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: When you wrote the letter to Minister Brian. Lenihan on 15 October, did you envisage that Ireland would be going into a bailout? Did you think Ireland would be going into a bailout?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: But you didn't request ... there was no request in the letter of 15 October?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: Can I ask as well that ... there was a very dramatic moment in Ireland on 18 November, the day before you wrote the letter of 19 November were Governor of the Irish Central Bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, from Frankfurt rang our national broadcaster, RTE radio, to basically signal that Ireland would be going into a bailout. He was to attend a meeting of the governors, your ECB governors...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: No, before the meeting. The meeting was at 8.50 ... He came onto national ... he rang national radio, "Morning Ireland", RTE - It's a very well known radio programme, well respected - and he effectively asked to go on the airwaves and he announced ... we would appear, unbeknownst to the Irish Government that Ireland would be going into a bailout. The two questions I have: did you, as ECB...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: Well. if you had ... You must have had a meeting very early in the. .. morning ... you must start very early in the morning in Frankfurt, Mr. Trichet.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: No. It was a meeting. He rang from Frankfurt at 8 o'clock in the morning to the national broadcaster, RTE "Morning Ireland", to state that Ireland would be going into a bailout programme.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: In the letter ... I'm quoting from the letter of 19 November. "As Patrick Honohan knows, [it's the second paragraph] the Governing Council has been asked yesterday to authorise new liquidity assistance which it did." The letter is dated 19 November so that is from - this happened on 18 November. Would you have told Professor Honohan, as Governor of the Irish Central Bank, that that was the...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: You would provide no further ELA funding unless Ireland went into a bailout.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: If Ireland had not gone into a bailout programme, what would have been the consequences, Mr. Trichet, for both Ireland and Europe?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: One final question, Mr. Trichet. If on the night of the guarantee, the Irish Government and the Irish authorities had contacted the ECB and looked for approval to provide ELA funding, emergency liquidity assistance to Anglo Irish and Irish Nationwide Building Society for a period of a week, would ... what view would the ECB have taken in terms of nationalising those banks or an orderly...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Kieran O'Donnell: You are saying that you were never contacted by the Irish Government or by the Irish Central Bank prior to the guarantee being put into place.