Results 3,101-3,120 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But why'd they only draft for a guarantee and not for nationalisation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, okay-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. On the night there is ... there was a contemporaneous note ... I'm sorry, this is Kevin Cardiff's note, I think that's KCA 00001. So, this was the note that Kevin Cardiff kept from the night, the one ... you know, the one ... one of the notes that we have from that night. And he observes in that that Brian Lenihan said: Anglo is now a bank with no cash and with fiduciary...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You were ... you were reported as being emotional and saying "We're not effing nationalising Anglo". Is that true?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, I'm reporting-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----a journalist.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, I was just ... he was talking about the tension in the room and I was following up with a question as to how much tension there might have been in the room.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Well, it was a fact reported, Chair, I'm not ... it wasn't-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Well, it does help to understand the crisis.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: In the Dáil, in January 2009, Mr. Lenihan said, "The only legislation before the Taoiseach and I that evening was a Bill which, in all material terms, is the same as the Bill before the House today." And he was talking about the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank. So just explain how it was that, if you like, he's saying it was before you that night? Is that the case?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So you were prepared enough?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And so you ... so the legislation was in a form that could have been used if that decision had been taken?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. Can I just take you back, if I may, to the day before again to the Cabinet meeting that you had on the Sunday? Did you have a pre-Cabinet meeting to discuss the financial situation? And did you raise the Merrill Lynch paper that you had at that meeting, or was there a briefing given by any of your officials to your fellow Cabinet members at that meeting? And was ... I think you've...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No decision?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay, so was there a briefing and was the Merrill Lynch document circulated at that meeting?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And was that conversation with Cabinet ... was it robust? Were there people asking questions? Was there concern in the room? What was the tone of that briefing?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Because I think that one of your colleagues said, in a subsequent interview, that he had understood that there had been an agreement in principle for a guarantee but that the details, if you like, were to be worked out. That's now not ... that's not your-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That's not what you're saying? That's not your recollection?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Was it a cabinet meeting that part-----