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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. Senator Barrett.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Can you just give me a reference for that so I can get it on the screen there, please, Senator?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Page 21, thank you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry, Senator, can I just get a page number, not the reference page number that the document is coming out of, the page number in the booklet?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: All right, thank you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. I am going to move towards the wrap-up and before I bring in Senator D'Arcy and Deputy Doherty ... west Cork has been referenced a couple of times this afternoon, Mr. Duffy, and there is the kind of colloquial saying down there if somebody was to ask for directions they will tell you, "Well, I wouldn't start from here". Maybe your career, in arriving in AIB was a bit...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: And, because of the timing with Lehman's and everything else, that eventually, then ultimately became the guarantee and so forth, because of the business model that was in place in AIB at that time, if those events didn't actually happen, and maybe something else triggered the type of sequencing you're talking about, would the exposure to the Irish taxpayer have actually been higher, given...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. So the intervention at that particular time, in or around ... or what was happening ... it was not an intervention, but the event that happened in 2008 determined the extent to which the bank was then exposed, but there was potential that, if that event didn't happen, that the event ... that the exposure could have been greater?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you. Senator D'Arcy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Well, the witness can answer the question how he wants. You can ask the question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator? Deputy Doherty?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry, just in terms of reference now, Deputy, just remain within the terms of reference.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Very, very last question, Mr. Duffy. In your view, having been at the helm of AIB for a number of years now, given that the bank was a publicly owned ... or privately owned bank, it is practically now in full public ownership, and has potential to return to private ownership again, do you believe that it's in the best interest that the bank would now become a private bank once more, or would...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: And that was just to bring me to a kind of space of recommendations. If there's anything further you'd like to add, or that you feel that you might like to comment upon before I close proceedings?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Mr. Duffy. Just for members, there's just one item in regard to tomorrow's proceedings that has to be dealt with, so we just need to go into private session just for a couple of moments for that. What I'm proposing now is to suspend just for a few moments, to excuse Mr. Duffy before I make the suspension, to thank Mr. Duffy for his participation before the inquiry...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Remuneration (30 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will authorise the implementation of the agreed rates for jobs in an institute (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17057/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: So with members' permission, we'll go into public session. Is that agreed? Agreed. And, as we have a quorum, the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis is now in public session. And can I ask members and those in the public gallery to ensure that their mobile phone and devices are switched off. This morning's session is a public hearing with Mr. Brian Goggin, chief...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Apr 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I begin, I just wish to advise you that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to this committee. If you are directed by the Chairman to cease giving evidence in relation to a particular matter and you continue to so do, you are entitled thereafter only to a qualified privilege in respect of...