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

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. And just to round off one item with regard to the Druids Glen event. He ... Mr. Cowen was the organiser of that, am I correct?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Yes. Who paid the bill?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. It's 14:52, I'm proposing that we will return spot on at ... oh, sorry, at ... within the hour, 15.00, if that's agreed? At 3 o'clock, yes. I'm on a 24-hour cycle at the moment. Just, one second, we're still in session, folks. Please sit down, please. In doing so, the ... I would like to remind the witness ... is reminded that once he begins giving evidence he should not confer...

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

Ciarán Lynch: Just to remind members to get their mobile devices back into safe mode if they have been using them during that short break. Okay, all right. So with that said, I now call the session back into public hearing. Is that agreed? And in doing so, we'll continue our engagement with Mr. Drury this afternoon and if I can invite Deputy Joe Higgins. Deputy, you have ten minutes.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, there was the root of the question. I know you went over to Budapest and Hungary and all the rest of it-----

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

Ciarán Lynch: But the root of the question ... I think the ... I just want to move this on so we're not revisiting, was the ... to quote yourself, "the gorging" question-----

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

Ciarán Lynch: And what ... and then we can ... just so we can complete that section ... session, Mr. Drury, and then we move on.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you. Deputy Michael McGrath.

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

Ciarán Lynch: It'll be on the screen there shortly, Mr. Drury.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. Deputy John Paul Phelan.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Yes, I can, indeed. Can we just speak to this for a moment? If ... it's not unusual for public servants, politicians and other people to be at hosted events by associations, could be the Construction Federation Industry, it could be the Irish Farmers Association, it could be ICTU, it could be SIPTU and it could be financial institutions, Banking Federation of Ireland and so forth.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, is the clock stopped? I've got to ... I know. If the matters are germane to what we're discussing here and if we had individuals that are very relevant to matters that have been discussed here before, if they're not really, kind of, in the general arena of discussion here, well, I think that's a different matter then, you know?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Can I engage with you here for a second? Okay. Look, I don't want to tread onto ground that, what you call it, just because a name is put out there, it creates a whole snowball effect and all the rest of it. What I could maybe do, Mr. Drury, and it allows us to move on as well from this, is if you could furnish the names, as you best recollect them-----

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

Ciarán Lynch: As you best recollect them. And what would happen is our support and legal team would examine that to see if it's germane or not and if further clarification needs to be drawn from that, we can do so, okay? But for this moment in time I would ask the Deputy to move on and out of that area. Thank you.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. We're back on the clock now so you can talk as much as you want.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Deputy, I'm moving on-----

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

Ciarán Lynch: You're commenting upon a question now ... so, you know, Deputy, we can't be in that space. The question has been made, Mr. Drury has responded. The evidence will be examined at the completion of this committee's work when we move towards our report. Deputy or Senator Sean Barrett.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Don't be leading, and I'm going to move on. Thank you very much, Senator Susan O'Keeffe.