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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: So just to recap ... so from 30 November '07 on there was preparations taking place in the Department of Finance-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----across a range of measures?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Of '08?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Just before you go on there, could you tell us the measures that were being looked at from November '07 onwards?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: You were satisfied that was the case?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did you look at bank resolution? Because we had the Governor, former Governor of the Central Bank, Governor Hurley, in before us, John Hurley-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----he stated that the resolution legislation was looked at, referred to your office and that you as the AG had difficulties with it being put in place. Is that correct?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: When was that roughly?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: But why wasn't our bank resolution ... the question ... you're telling us that for nearly a year prior to the guarantee being put in place in September, there was effectively crisis management under way-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----in the Department of Finance. So why did we get to the night of the guarantee and there wasn't resolution legalisation in place in terms of dealing with various issues? Why was a decision taken incorporeally in terms of the Cabinet? Why wasn't it taken on the two days before and a full Cabinet meeting, the day before a full Cabinet meeting, on 28 September? Why do we get to a point...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: There are indeed. All interlinked.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Burden-sharing for subordinated debt holders?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Never put to you?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: In the limited time I have, can you progress in terms of why we had this decision taken over six or eight ... on the night of the guarantee?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Separate from the Cabinet meeting.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: By the Governor?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did you give any advice at the Cabinet meeting on 28 September in terms or around the financial situation?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did you maintain any notes on the night of the guarantee-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----that didn't involve legal advice?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: In the limited time I have ... can I go back ... you referenced in your own statement on page 8 and 9, that the Government had a draft, a guarantee statement in place, which we ... William Beausang was in before us previously provided ... which provided for a six-month guarantee, which provided for just, in relation, purely deposits, not senior bondholders or dated subordinated debt. What was...