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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Where is that now, Deputy?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final question now, Deputy. Final question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'll be bringing you back in the wrap-up. I'll be bringing you back in wrap-up. You're opening a new line of questioning, I'll bring you in the wrap-up. There is just one short supplementary. Okay, thank you. Okay, Mr. Begg, if I can just deal with a couple of questions with yourself there and if I can just get a ... this is a ... crisis management key findings from the five reviews -...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, sure-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Mr. Dunne?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Sure.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: If I could maybe just refer on the ... there's two statements there; I just want to address. One is from the Wright report and it's under the heading there - whether income was a cause. Just a mid-paragraph analysis. Wage settlements accelerated markedly from the late 90s, in absolute and in relative terms. The "trilateral" wage agreements continued but became less relevant as workers...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I just want to go back to one point. I just want to bring in Mr. Dunne and ... because we know that going into 2000, there was a ... 2008, the social partnership was still looking to extract more from the pot and the ... later in the year, it was showing that the income wasn't actually there. But returning to the earlier point, Mr. Dunne.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: So, just to return then, to your own time, Mr. Begg, at the latter end, as were facing into the crisis and a bailout was coming into ... on the horizon, a banking guarantee was becoming more evident, as we saw from discussions here, was there a desire in social partnership, from your experience, from all the parties not just the union sides but employers and so forth, that there needed to be...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. If I can just revert to yourself, Mr. Dunne. In your opening statement - and if I can get it up there please - you ... and this is related to your earlier engagement with Deputy Higgins, you state that the bank was confronted by the dilemma of ... then going on, triggering events which it was actually seeking to prevent and then going on to say again specifically that they ... they...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: And in that cautionary environment that you just explained to us, Mr. Dunne, did that create an environment where ... and the events that were happening that the bank was trying to prevent details of the discussions on these issues or whether, with hindsight ... we discussed that they could have actually triggered them through a self-fulfilling prophecy, but was there, if not an explicit, an...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. My apologies as well for that interruption. Mr. Begg, would you have a different or a similar view-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----with regard to the difficulties that that ... as outlined by Mr. Dunne?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Finally ... and what I propose we might just take a five-minute break at that stage and then we can return as we've a busy schedule, but I just need to maybe call a short break. Finally, to yourself, Mr. Dunne, the IDA publication "Winning direct" ... or, sorry, "Winning Foreign Direct Investment 2015-2019" states "A critical element of IDA Ireland's new strategy will be a continued strong...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, but this was a forward ... projected document that-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.