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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I mean, I would put it to you that August seems to have been a month where people went away, they took holiday and everything came becalmed. And when everyone returned in September ... and the first note we have, 3 September, that it then seems to have rushed into a crisis that then was ... I just ... I put it to you, that's what it feels like from the documentation.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: It just does seem as if all the figures ... everything was steadily getting worse and worse and worse and then there was a calm in August and then everybody came back to work. That's how it appears.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: But I hear what you-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: So the Reuters story almost helped-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: At that meeting, at the weekend ... there were several meetings at the weekend of 7 September 2008-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----where the banks came in and they met the Central Bank and Financial Regulator to talk about potentially rescuing Irish Nationwide in some way, shape or form. The minutes taken by both of the banks from that meeting would suggest that things were very bad indeed for INBS in talking about a hole in the ... on page 132 of Kevin Cardiff's Vol. 1, it talks about, "The banks reiterated it was...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I'm sorry, what never happened?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: So at that meeting... this was a crisis meeting that took place on a Sunday. Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator - and that was Tony Grimes and Pat Neary and Con Horan - and you're saying that what was communicated ... or what was discussed at that meeting was not clearly communicated back to you and this was at the beginning of the serious crisis....

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: No, but you never saw any minutes back from the meeting, or you were never told, "These guys say that INBS is in a serious state." That's what I'm asking you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: On page 1 of your own ... what I've called the long statement, you refer to your ... who ... the secret team, the secret work that you were doing. Was there a secret team and, if so, who was in it?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And who was doing that work with you? Sorry.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did Minister Lenihan know about this secret group?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. I'm just-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And the Taoiseach also?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. What was the purpose of your meeting with Tiernan O'Mahony on 25 September? He was the former head of treasury at Anglo?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did he come to talk to you about Anglo?