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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'm just trying to clarify that now, for sure.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Are you concluded then, Deputy McGrath?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Senator O'Keeffe.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, time to wrap up, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. I'm going to move to wrap things up inviting Deputy Murphy to conclude, please. Sorry, my apologies, Senator D'Arcy just indicated on one point.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Turn off your phone first. There's some areas there that's-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Please. I'm going to hold for a second, Senator, because there's terrible phone distortion there, wherever it is coming from. Okay, continue again, please.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Thank you very much. Deputy Murphy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. Deputy Doherty, please. Wrap up.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you. With that said, I'm going to bring matters to a conclusion. Mr. Browne, is there anything you would like to add by manner of closing comments, further remarks or additional information?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Mr. Browne. With that said, I'd like to thank you for your participation this evening and your co-operation with the schedule today and your engagement with the inquiry. You're now formally excused and it is proposed that the meeting is adjourned until 9 a.m. tomorrow, Thursday, 10 September, when we will conclude our final day's hearings, our public hearings, of the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: The Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis is now in public session. Is that agreed? Agreed. Can I ask members and those in the public Gallery to ensure that their mobile devices are now switched off. We begin today's first session - one of three sessions of public hearings - and we commence with Mr. Ajai Chopra, former deputy director of the IMF and in doing so, I would like to...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Once again, Mr. Chopra, welcome before the committee this morning and if I can invite you to make your opening remarks please.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Mr. Chopra, for your opening comments and if I can commence questioning and in doing so invite Deputy John Paul Phelan. Deputy, you've 15 minutes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy, if you maybe just desist from giving some adjective or pronouns or descriptives to the letters. They're just letters; whether they're infamous or not will be decided at another time, okay? Mr. Chopra.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Mr. Chopra is a very nice man-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----but I'd ask you maybe, just to deal with the facts.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator Marc MacSharry.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. I just want to stay with that for a moment, if you don't mind, before I bring in the next questioners, Mr. Chopra? And in that regard, Senator MacSharry was talking about the social consequences. You mentioned earlier the SGP, that is the Stability and Growth Pact, and the rules that come with that. Was there a balancing or a sort of conflict of needs there between...