Results 3,281-3,300 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Were you asking - let's be clear - you were asking questions of the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator and you were not getting the information?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Would you describe this ... the ... your view, the NTMA view of what should be done that night, would you describe it as a strong view that you believed, that nationalisation ... was it a strong view that you held as a team?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Do you believe that the strength of your view is in any way linked to the fact that you were not in the room on the night of the guarantee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: When you were last here, Mr. McDonagh, you may ... you said ... just bear with me ... on page 61 of your own evidence, the last time that you were here, you said at the beginning of September I think we were becoming understandably concerned, maybe, about the Central Bank and the ... sorry: the Department of Finance, I think, were becoming understandably concerned maybe about the Central...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So was there some tension then, do you think?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Were you surprised when ... as you said, when you heard that they weren't able to answer questions, were you surprised at that? Were you shocked, what was the reaction?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: What advices or analysis was carried out by the NTMA in the months leading up to the increase in the deposit guarantee, and was there a deliberate strategy to increase the guarantee scheme to be one of the largest in Europe to maximise ... was that to maximise deposit liquidity?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: The personal guarantees, yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. On page 6 of your own, I'm sorry, on page ... it's a reference to ... to something Michael Somers I think will say, was there a specific reason why the NTMA was omitted from further discussions on the liquidity situation of the banks and the extent of their borrowing from the Central Bank? Do you know about this?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, okay well that's fair enough, you can't answer that. Can you comment on the Merrill Lynch strategic options paper, the one that was dated 28 September, which was considering all the options, as you've said, including a guarantee? And can you describe the discussions that NTMA senior management had, or did they have, having seen that presentation?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: What was your understanding of that other meeting that took place at the Central Bank?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I know, but what is your understanding subsequently?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Can you just clarify, we have a document DOF01702. It was an e-mail from Andreas Matthaeus and it was dated 29 September 2008, at 23.54, so almost midnight. And it was addressed to Henrietta Baldock and Kevin Cardiff and I don't think you ... let me just see-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, you were. And I'm just wondering, yes, you were, that's why I ... yes, so do you ... were you aware there was another ... there was another email at 21.27 and you were also ... you were involved in that. Were you aware, given that you were then in Government Buildings, did you have access to this? So you were being included in the documentation but not at the meeting? I'm just trying...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay, absolutely.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Have you got it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: DOF01702.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So, let's just be clear, at midnight-----