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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay. You referred to a briefing which you organised involving Fine Gael - Enda Kenny, Richard Bruton plus one other - which involved Willie McAteer, Mr. Drumm and yourself. When did that take place?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Well, Mr. Kenny was questioned by Deputy Doherty when he attended and all that he could say was, "I think it was 2008".
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Pre-guarantee, post-guarantee? Look, I am not trying to catch you out. Mr. Kenny-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Mr. Kenny did give ... did refer to it in the Dáil previously-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: -----and said it was a couple of weeks after the guarantee. Now when he came before this inquiry, he said it was some time in 2008 so, can you narrow it down for us is what I am asking.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay. What e-mails are you referring to?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay. So you are confirming that you are the author of those e-mails. So the reference is an article in theSunday Independentof 21 July 2013?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: You are familiar with that-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: -----by Tom Lyons and Daniel McConnell, where two e-mails in particular are referred to. The first e-mail would be 18 November 2008, from yourself to Mr. David Drumm, where you refer to an "Enda K": "Enda K called ...Said that today a lot of rumour circulating Leinster Hse concerning deal with BoI (Bank of Ireland) and ILP, (Irish Life and Permanent)." Did you send that e-mail?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Sure. And in that you were giving an account of a conversation you had personally with Mr. Kenny.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay. When was that particular conversation? Was it the same day that you would have sent the e-mail or-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay. And then the following day, 19 November, there is a further e-mail, from you to Mr. Drumm, where it says, "Enda says we are to be an 'offshoot' of" BoI." Were you the author of that e-mail to Mr. Drumm?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: And is that giving an account of a separate conversation with Mr. Kenny?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay. Can you give us the background to that because, obviously, those are very sensitive issues that were being discussed by Mr. Kenny, as Leader of the Opposition, and you - information which may or may not have been accurate or I don't know the provenance or where he would have got the information. But can you give us the background to those conversations? So were there two...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Okay. Mr. Kenny told this inquiry that he had no conversation of any substance with yourself.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: But he did have a conversation with you in which he informed you that Anglo was to be an offshoot of Bank of Ireland.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: And a second conversation in which he conveyed to you a rumour circulating around the corridors of power about a deal between Bank of Ireland and ILP?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: You would characterise that as not a conversation of any substance?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: Sure. Under questioning by Deputy Doherty, Mr. Kenny acknowledged at least one conversation, and said that there may have been two, and that the origin of it was that your brother contacted him to say that you wanted to speak with Mr. Kenny, that you wanted to say something to him. Is that the case?