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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Taoiseach, there's been a lot of-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Some of your previous comments have been put to you in term of this inquiry. I'll put another quote from you, where you called on people to stand by the Republic and assist the inquiry. Can I ask you to assist me in the question I have? Do you accept that the Fine Gael - and I'm not talking about your economic model-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, I'll ask the question if you can get the Taoiseach to answer it.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. So I want to ... Because I'm putting it to you that you've said that far from increasing expenditure, you did the opposite, right? So I want to make this point and can you answer, please, the point I'm making and if you need clarification in terms of the question I'm putting, maybe seek it. Do you accept from the four numbers that is on your screen from the Fine Gael election...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Taoiseach.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh agus fáilte roimh an Tánaiste agus an Teachta chuig an coiste. Mr. Rabbitte can I start with yourself? From the Opposition viewpoint, how open to scrutiny was the Government decision-making process in your view?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes. I am not just talking about the guarantee, we know that the guarantee was one night, but in relation to issues around finances and the banking crisis.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. And in your view in relation to, again this period and the financial crisis, do you believe that the Oireachtas ... was the Oireachtas sufficiently aware of the stakeholders with whom Government Ministers consulted in the pre-legislative stage of legislation around this period and how was that information made available, if it was?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. It takes me on to the next question. In your opinion, were the Opposition parties, including your own party, adequately consulted, in particular, on issues that ... which may have been deemed ... as national importance? And I'm not looking to------
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----refer to civil servants here, or officials. I'm talking about Government Ministers.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Is that ever going to change? Like, given the fact, you know, we know from this inquiry ... we've found evidence that guarantee legislation was being discussed at a very early stage in the spring of that year, we know that the nationalisation of banks were being discussed, we know that the ... Minister Lenihan himself went to the Attorney General and circumvented Cabinet because he was...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. Can I ask, Ms Burton, you refer on your opening statement, on page 17, to the 1974 Kenny report. Could you explain to the committee the reasons why the rainbow coalition did not implement the findings of the Kenny report?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: So it was because you couldn't get agreement but Labour pushed it at the time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----we got that-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: No, that's fine, that's fine. No, that's clear. Mr. Rabbitte, and finally on this here, you were a member of the DIRT inquiry committee. And one of the findings was the undue close relationship between the State apparatus - in the form of the Department of Finance and the Central Bank - and the Irish financial institutions. We have it from the DIRT report, it's on page 52, but I quote...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat agus fáilte an tUasal O'Reilly. Can I ask you, you refer in paragraphs 3 to 5, on page 5 of your statement, to a multi-bank loan agreement for the Dundrum Town Centre involving six banks, with Anglo as the agent for the other five lenders. How did this arrangement come about and, from a developer's viewpoint, what are the particular advantages and downside risks...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: And is it you that went around to the six banks looking for loans or did some executive in Anglo start phoning up the other five banks saying "Will you give Joe O'Reilly some money for this development in Dundrum?" or how-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes. So there was ... or there was a ... there'd been a senior executive in Anglo Irish Bank approaching other banks to lend to you. Is that ... did that happen in this regard?