Results 3,161-3,180 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. On the night of the guarantee, William Beausang who is obviously an official, told us about how he worked on a draft of a release that related to the guarantee and that he'd had ... his e-mail record showed that there was a draft that was sent to him. Were you involved at all with William in that draft?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But you didn't have a hand in ... you weren't sitting at a machine or talking to Mr. Beausang?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. But it's your ... but you believe that it was because the Central Bank was already set in its view that it came with that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: When you were going over to Government Buildings for that meeting, and I know you weren't party to them, but were you aware or did Mr. Lenihan make any observation about what he expected the outcome of the meeting might be, you know, we'll be ... there'll be a solution or we'll have nationalised or did he-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Were there any observations again around any statement ... you talked about the statement that was made that was delivered the following morning, about whether or not the statement would contain the expression that all banks were solvent? Because this came up in evidence from Mr. Eugene Sheehy from the bank, that ... you know, would it say that or not. Were you part of any of that conversation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Well in fact Mr. Sheehy said there was clearly a risk in the statement and didn't want that to be said.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And in fact it wasn't said.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: In relation to the banks overall that they ... it wouldn't be said that they were all solvent. It didn't say it in the final release.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: When Mr. Lenihan gave an interview in March 2011 he said that when Brian Cowen asked him to be Minister for Finance, "I did not seek the job and I did argue with him at the time but he asked me to do it and you don't refuse a Prime Minister." Do you recall what his, you know, yourself, what was the view, what was your view, did it come as a surprise, was he delighted, was he worried, was he...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: When he saw the briefing notes, and I assume you would have seen some of the briefing notes that were given to him at the time ... I mean, was it then the ... you know, what was his reaction when he saw the seriousness of the language, the seriousness of the briefing notes which we've seen? What ... do you recall what he might have said to you or said out loud?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Kevin Cardiff, when he was here, gave evidence that he, Kevin Cardiff, had met with Tiernan O'Mahony and Sean FitzPatrick, Brian Goggin, Denis Casey, Gillian Bowler and Michael Walsh - not together, separately - in the days before the bank guarantee and I'm wondering whether Mr. Lenihan might have accompanied Mr. Cardiff to any of those meetings?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: In 2011, when Mr. Lenihan became aware that Mr. Cowen had had the golf outing in July 2008, had he, first of all, had Mr. Lenihan known about the golf outing at the time when it had occurred or did he just find out as other people did in January? And if so do you recall what his response, if any, was?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And was he surprised ... was he more than surprised or was that it, just surprise?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. In an interview that he gave, again, he ... to the Community Voicenewspaper, when he said he had a good working relationship with Mr. Cowen around the Cabinet table he said: I felt that when he was elected Taoiseach he would give a stronger lead and express himself in a more forthright way about the problems facing the country. I felt I had to give a lot of that lead and give those...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Forgive me, on page ... it's your own statement on page ... where is your own statement gone ... you make ... I'm sorry, somebody has-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Just ... if you would just give me one second. I'm sorry, do you have it there? It's on page ... it's the remark you make about the bailout ... I won't be able to find it now. Okay, I'm sorry-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Sorry, just bear with me one second, "...whether it needed to be a full-scale programme is open to question". It's on page 10 of your own statement, forgive me, I'm sorry. Thank you, Chair. So, "whether it needed to be a full-scale programme", you were talking about the bailout. And you were talking about ... so, and you were making an observation I think, you know, did it need to be a...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But without a full bailout?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: As it was called, okay. That didn't happen.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Mr. Quinlan, you explained to us at the start that you qualified as a chartered accountant and that your first property deal was in Tallaght. And then you moved in obviously-----