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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----a job for real experts to spend real time on?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Why is that? Is that true of all banks or was it just true because of the convoluted-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, and I'm not asking you to.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Does that mean also, Mr. Aynsley, that for the bank executive, was it also difficult for them if it was piling one on top of the other? Would they equally have been losing track of their own system if it was not adequate?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you. Mr. Aynsley, can you recall whether there was a level of borrowings by the actual directors of the banks? I do not suppose there is a sort of-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I am not asking at all-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: It is a collective question. What I am just trying to establish is whether or not that level was higher or lower than any other experience you'd had, just in the broad sense. That is all I am asking. Was it higher or lower?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Dukes, if I may, you included in ADU-0002, it was the document, the letter that you wrote to Mr. Moran in 2011, where you talked about the decision to appoint another set of advisers - McKinsey. You said that was the Department's decision and one which has "retarded the bank's process and has added little value". You go on to say, "The McKinsey team, none of whom appear to have any real...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Were they removed?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, but you were asked to remove them, weren't you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You say, the bank should dispense with the services-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But why would the Department of Finance choose to put in, never mind the quality of them, but why would they choose to do that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But did they never say to you, look, you know, we have our own-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I can tell.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Finally, if I may-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, I get that. I get it. Mr. Aynsley, in relation to the concerns that were discussed previously by other members on page 15, did you, on foot of what had happened there, did you ask to speak to anybody else in the Department of Finance? Did you ask to speak to the Minister for Finance? What did you do on foot of those ... because I know you've said that there is a trail of e-mails to...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I understand that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, and finally, I mean, effectively, you have noted that the relationship was governed by the so-called relationship framework, the RF. Do you believe that in your tenure there, was that relationship framework breached in any way, specifically? I mean, given all the concerns and they're in ... they're noted here ... was it actually breached?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Was it breached by the Department of Finance, though?