Results 3,201-3,220 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. Is it fair to say that you became known as a man who was good at understanding those schemes and could ... and could, if you like, if you'll excuse the parlance, work your way around them?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Although I think people did argue and report that you were just particularly good at it or particularly quick at it.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. That's fair enough. Now, in the book Breakfast with Anglo, Simon Kelly's book, which I'm-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----you may be familiar with, and if you're not, that's fine but he talks about the idea of selling tax allowances. He said that they would be ... separate the property asset from its tax allowance and sell the tax allowance to high net worth individuals. Is this something that you were familiar with or is it something-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. Now, obviously, as your business progressed and grew - and we've seen the figures; it grew quite significantly - you obviously became more involved with more banks as time went by, I take it.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So could you describe the sort of business case, the process and criteria that Irish banks applied and how, if they did change in that period of time, how did they change? Because we've heard evidence, obviously, of how some of their models changed over time.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I appreciate that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And did you see, at all, any change in the way banks behaved towards you? Now, I don't mean their internal processes, because clearly you couldn't say-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----but you were the client, if you like.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But possibly not ... possibly not the case 20 years later or 15 years later, but anyway.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But my point is, did you see a change? Or how did the banks behave towards you now that you were, if you like, a player?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So they were coming to you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And what would they say, Mr. Quinlan? What were they ... how would they do that? Take you to lunch or-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Right.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And what would make you choose, if you like, one serious banker out of another? If all of us here are bankers, why would you choose one or two? What ... what ... what attracted you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And how, given that they were obviously competing for your business-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----and you weren't taking all of the offers that were given, what sorts of deals, if you like, or terms were they offering in order to entice you? What would they say to you, apart from the lunch or the dinner, what were they really talking about?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Too long ago, Chair?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That is the question.