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

Pearse Doherty: The source is ... it's by a ... the investigator editor of, I think it's theMail on Sunday, it's Michael O'Farrell, posted on 30 October 2011.

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

Pearse Doherty: Well, the question is, outside of the post, the question is very simple. Did you throw parties where the, the former Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, or did you have entertainment or did you host events where Brian Cowen and Seánie FitzPatrick would have been in each other's company?

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

Pearse Doherty: Okay, okay, and ... they, they would be events where other guests would be in a ... in attendance.

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

Pearse Doherty: And the types of parties that you run, without intruding, and I'm only looking at the relationships in terms of the sectors that I outlined. When the former Taoiseach and former Finance Minister were in attendance, would there have been individuals from the financial institutions? Would it be the norm that, that there would be key people from financial institutions in attendance? Were they...

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

Pearse Doherty: Of course, I, I can understand ...I appreciate that. In relation to ... what Senator O'Keeffe was talking about in relation to the delegation to China, which I think was led by the former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, if that's correct. You were in attendance there when he met the governor of one of the provinces, is that correct?

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

Pearse Doherty: Who else was in attendance at that meeting?

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

Pearse Doherty: No, no, the reason I'm asking ... the question I'm putting to you directly was, was Des Richardson the, the person who instigated the Galway tent, the major fund-raiser for Fianna Fáil, was he in attendance at that, at that meeting?

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

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Do, what ... can you outline to the committee your relationship with Fianna Fáil's main fund-raiser, or the person behind the Galway tent? As he called it this week, I think it was his baby.

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

Pearse Doherty: I think he said it was his baby, this, this week, so can you outline the relationship, did you have a relationship either personal or business relationship-----

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

Pearse Doherty: With Mr. Richardson.

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

Pearse Doherty: Okay, and in relation to just political donations, just to make this clear, I think it was asked earlier on but just to focus in on this; in terms of ... outside to the parties, did you provide political donations to individual TDs or Ministers and did you also include their chief fund-raisers in relation to that, to the parties?

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

Pearse Doherty: No. And did you ever purchase property or were the beneficial owner of property from either Ministers, TDs or ... the chief fund-raiser, in the form of Mr. Richardson?

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

Pearse Doherty: No. Okay, can I ask you in relation to the ... on page 11, in terms of the debts that you have shown from the institutions, which was based on your 31 March 2009 accounts, which show a total of, it'll come up on the screen, it's on page 11 of your statement ... €2.378 billion of debts to the financial institutions. Can you inform the committee whether that is debts solely to...

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

Pearse Doherty: But it's within the terms of reference, it's ... would this company ... this company would have had-----

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

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

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

Pearse Doherty: Okay. I appreciate that. Okay, but just to clarify, because there have been reports in the paper for ... and this is where I was concerned in relation to your exposure to Bank of Ireland, which seems very low here, but there has been reports that it was actually hundreds of millions in excess of that. But that would be in relation to other companies or other interests that you had?

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

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Well, can I say in relation to your final ... to your statement at the end, in relation to "... history will show that NAMA was effective in ensuring that monies borrowed were repaid". Is that only in relation to Ballymore that you're talking about?

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

Pearse Doherty: No, you're talking about all entities?

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

Pearse Doherty: And, can we just clarify that you're talking about the loans that were taken out from the financial institutions and not the money that was paid for those loans by NAMA?

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

Pearse Doherty: Okay. And in relation to NAMA, you'll be aware, or you may be aware, that NAMA, and this is from ... the public accounts committee received correspondence back in 2011 from Brendan McDonagh talking about the incentivisation mechanisms, and he talked at that point in 2011 that legally binding agreements had been entered into with nine debtors, under which the proposed incentives are in place....