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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (7 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 304. To ask the Minister for Health regarding a meeting in his Department on 27 February 2015, at which it was stated that further efforts were being made to fill vacant posts for two general practitioner positions in the breast cancer service in Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal, if these vacancies have been successfully filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (7 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 305. To ask the Minister for Health regarding a meeting in his Department on 27 February 2015, at which it was stated that an application for the appointment of a general surgeon with an interest in gastrointestinal surgery was to be made by the Saolta university health care group for Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal, if this application was made by the group; if an appointment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (7 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 306. To ask the Minister for Health following the retirement of a person (details supplied) from Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal, if a permanent replacement has been appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the securing of a suitable premises in which to relocate a Health Service Executive managed training service centre for persons with disabilities (details supplied) in County Donegal; if a decision has been made by the executive's estates department pertaining to the leasing of a suitable premises; his plans to provide the necessary...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathoirligh. Fáilte arís an tUasal Cowen. Can I ask you, Mr. Cowen, when did you first become aware of ... that the wholesale borrowing situation presented a systemic risk? And how was this risk relayed to you and by whom was it relayed to? Can you tell the committee, like, what was the earliest point in 2008, or before, that this issue was discussed by...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I think the key question ... I appreciate that. The key question is: when did you become aware that wholesale borrowings situation presented as a systemic risk, or did you ever become aware that it was a systemic risk?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Cowen, evidence given by Kevin Cardiff states that a prominent business person, in the form of Dermot Desmond, contacted John Hurley, the Governor of the Central Bank, to put the case for a guarantee prior to the formal announcement on 30 September 2008. Can you confirm if you received any contact, or contacts, of a similar nature and, if so, from whom?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: And nobody ever approached you, or nobody ever suggested to you, outside the Department of Finance officials and the Central Bank, the idea or the need to bring in a guarantee of some form or other?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. And, like, the national newspapers were running columns and pieces in relation to a guarantee, in the form of David McWilliams and so on, and nobody, as you'd be out and about, ever raised the issue about the guarantee? No member of the public ever raised-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: No? Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: All right. Okay, can I ask you when did you become ... so that's from external, outside of the agencies, Department of Finance and the Central Bank, but now, internally, when did you become first aware or ... of a discussion in relation to possibly bringing forward a guarantee and making the preparations for such?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: We have ... you mentioned the nationalisation bill, which has a head under it that would ... allowed for guarantee, so that would have been around June and the e-mail that you referred to in relation to the conversation about bringing in specific legislation for a guarantee, the e-mail that we have as a committee is dated 24 April 2008. So, would that be about the earliest possible time that...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I understand how it's coming. My question is ... is just what is the earliest stage that you were aware that there was a need to start to prepare legislation that allowed for the potential of a guarantee to bring forward? Was it when this e-mail was circulated that you referred to, which was April, or was it earlier?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I would appreciate if you would answer the question-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: No, no-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: No, and I appreciate that. But the question specifically is, when is the first time that you became aware that there was a need to prepare legislation that would allow for the potential State guarantee of the institutions?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: April-May. Appreciate that. Can I ask you, in your state ... you refer in your statement to consulting with economic consultant Alan Gray. Did you consult anybody else in reaching your conclusion on the guarantee options, even in the days beforehand? And, for each such contact, what were the principal elements of their advice? And specifically, can I ask you did you consult with David...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Did ... when you phoned Alan Gray, that evening, did he mention to you that Seánie FitzPatrick and David Drumm had called to his offices unsolicited a couple of hours beforehand?