Results 2,941-2,960 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, so that was going one way and unlikely to suddenly start recovering-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did anybody really think it would? Given the state of the banks, given the state of the world economy-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, but-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, and the question is, how, you know, how can we ... how could those have been relied on to the extent that they appear to have been relied upon, when all around us, you know ... we're losing our heads, so to speak, everything was going one way-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----and yet one could look at these and say-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Well, this is the letter to the Minister, confidential and commercially sensitive, written by ... the Central Bank. Why on ... I mean, if it's not to be believed, then why were we ... why was Mr. Lenihan receiving it as a confidential document-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You referred earlier on to that expression "the living banks". So, when did Anglo die?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, but when did it really die?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Right.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: At the night ... during the time of the bailout, when Patrick Honohan went on "Morning Ireland" on the morning of 18 November, what was the reaction among officials like yourself to that interview?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You were obviously involved, as you said, very close up from the beginning ... from 2008 right through. How early on did you believe Ireland would need a bailout? Because Patrick Honohan suggested he had a conversation - albeit a small conversation - with Minister Lenihan in April of that year, suggesting that there might be. Did you have a view yourself?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And finally, if I may, Chair, when you came into the job in early November 2008, how - if you look back - how would you describe what you found ... if it was, sort of, in between chaos and a lack of information at the very one end and extremely organised and loads of information at the other end? Where was it when you arrived? And what did that mean, then, for you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Oh.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Sorry, I thought that Ms Nolan was going to continue speaking there.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thanks, Chair. Mr. McCreevy, during your tenure as Minister, there were obviously the difficulties that arose around Ansbacher and also the DIRT inquiry and in 2001-2002, the problems with Allfirst, the AIB subsidiary. I'm not asking you to elaborate on any of those matters; what I am asking you to do, is to say ... is to tell us why, in your own statement to us today, you said, "It was...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So it was just ... it was never discussed even though, clearly, there were problems at some banks. You already had that experience-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----from a previous time. You're just saying it wasn't-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. That's fine-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That's the answer to the question-----