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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----at what level was the formality?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So you did have that channel to present some of more of the robust thoughts that you had. Some of them would have made it all the way up, and some not?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mary Burke, in her evidence here, talked about informal meetings that took place on the seventh floor where ... where senior bankers came in and would meet various senior members in your offices. Were you ever part of the meetings that took place?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So the banks would be saying things are okay. The Central Bank would be saying to them "Things are not great, you're lending too much". What would happen then? I mean, that's two diametrically opposed points of view.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And was that then as a reassurance to the Central Bank?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you know that, that he was, that the regulator was?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Sorry, Chairman, I can't find the second one.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Mr. O'Reilly, what was the nature of the discussion at board level - of the Financial Regulator and the Central Bank - in relation to internal contrarians in both the Financial Regulator and the Central Bank?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Contrarians.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I beg your pardon.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. O'Connell gave evidence yesterday that he had at one point been asked by somebody senior to him to ring Frances Ruane in the ESRI to remove the reference to the fragility of the banks. I know that this wasn't during your time but not only ... that seems to me to be beyond, if you like, the Central Bank, that was asking another institution to change. How or ... was that ever ... did that...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Can you describe the channel of communication between you and the Department of Finance while you were the CEO of the Financial Regulator? And how did you deal with emerging material issues before the domestic standing group was established, which, of course, occurred after your tenure?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: In relation to your own office in 2003-2004, the budget that you had for your ... to run your office was €39 million. Is that correct?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And how much of that budget was given ... was paid by the financial institutions themselves?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. How did it arise that the financial institutions themselves were funding their own regulator?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Who paid the rest of the budget?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (11 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you do anything during your time to increase the amount of money or decrease the amount of money paid by the financial institutions for the running of your office?