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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (7 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Mr. Boucher, you acknowledged to Deputy Higgins that the letter that he referred to was a mistake. Did you write any other letters of that kind about any other developers or consortia or anything of that kind?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: That was a one-off?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did any of your colleagues at the bank write any letters of that kind?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Not that you're aware of?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. In 2014, last year, you were at an IBEC conference and RTE reported you as having said, when you were asked about the bank's property lending during the boom, you said, "Obviously everyone did things to different degrees, but when there is a wild party, even good girls get into trouble." What were you referring to there?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: But is it not-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: But was there a truth to the word "wildness" in the analogy?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Is "exuberant"-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Is "exuberant" a posh word for wild?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: You didn't-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Boucher, you've acknowledged errors and mistakes, you've talked about not recognising risk, you've said yourself you accept your share of responsibility. Would you like to apologise either to the shareholders or to the people of Ireland for what you did within the bank and your role in that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: No, forgive me, because I didn't see the words "sorry" in your statement and I just wanted to make that clear.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Just one thing ... Mr. Goggin ... I raised with him the assurance that he had given to your board - that's book 1, Vol. 1, page 13 and 14 - that he said that there was a contingency plan that had been put in place by the Financial Regulator. When I asked him about it during his testimony, he said he had never actually seen one, so I'm just wondering whether you ever saw a contingency plan by...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Were you present at the Anglo Irish Bank meeting with Bank of Ireland that took place on the day of the guarantee?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Were you present at the Central Bank meeting earlier that day?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Chief executive?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: What was your ... why do you believe the Bank of Ireland asked to see the Taoiseach and the Government that night, because we're just still not quite clear what the request was?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Can I ask you about Exhibit B3? This is a document you gave us yourself in your own statement. It seems to me to be a very serious document, in which it ... it shows the immediate actions that your own bank was taking at the time. You were sell ... you were continuing to run down books, various books and portfolios, you were looking at, sort of, how to ... basically how to save yourselves....