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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----different industry representatives, isn't it?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thanks.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Just following up, Mr. Cowen, on those remarks you were making about the well-planned and affordable housing. In the April 2006 census, there were 266,000 vacant housing units - that had gone up from 230,000 vacant housing units in 2005, gone up from 140,000 in 2002. How can you explain the idea that we wanted well-planned, affordable houses with the number of vacant...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Well, I'm using the definition as provided by the census. I'm just ... there were clearly a lot of vacant houses, whether they're second houses or not. You're talking about-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Well, some of them will be-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----but the point is-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----it's the census. It's ... sorry, 350,000 vacant houses-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----that'd be an awful lot of holiday homes, Mr. Cowen.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, okay, thank you, yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I'm moving on.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Vol. 1, page ... I'm sorry, Vol. 1, page 22 of Mr. Cowen's documents: "The Department of Finance (DoF) did not, despite its mandate, see itself as concretely involved in financial stability issues; it also did not have the requisite professional staff for this." This was an observation from the Wright report in relation to that. So it did not, despite its mandate, see itself as involved in...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: But the Wright report is saying, "The Department of Finance did not, despite its mandate, see itself as concretely involved in financial stability issues."

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Do you accept the criticism?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Can I go back to the contracts for difference, please? We understand that Mr. FitzPatrick phoned you when, I think, it was Malaysia or Vietnam, just after 17 March, that's correct?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Was that the first time that he'd rung you in relation to this matter?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: The contracts for difference .

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did you discuss the contracts for difference in the call?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Had you discussed it previously with Mr. FitzPatrick?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: No?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: So when did you find out about the contracts for difference?