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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----for government?
- 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: Now, would you appreciate answering my question, which is the policy commitments and not the consistency of your policies, but the policy commitments and not the projections of the ESRI, but your policy commitments to reduce income tax for everybody and to keep tax levels at the current ... in terms of capital gains tax and corporation tax, would that not have eroded the tax base?
- 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: Okay, I'm moving on. I'm still no wiser whether you believe that your commitments would have further eroded the tax base-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----and what policies that you had at that time to broaden the tax base. But time is of the essence. During your time in opposition, did you actively seek views and opinions from banks, property developers or their trade bodies in order to develop property strategy, Mr. Kenny? And how did you ensure that policies were developed in a way which balanced the needs of all stakeholders?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Well, outside of the policy-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Again, just coming back to the question again. The question was: did you actively seek the views and opinions of banks, property developers or other trade bodies? Is that a "Yes", just ... or a "No"?
- 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: Okay. Okay. Mr. Kenny, I'd like to explore the conversations you had with Matt Moran, the chief financial officer of Anglo Irish Bank, a senior figure in that bank. It was reported in the Sunday Independenton 21 July 2013 by journalists, Tom Lyons and Daniel McConnell-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: This is in relation to July ... it's in relation to just after the guarantee. It's in the period of opposition.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Oh, it's reported at a later stage.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, well, I'll ask the question then-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----and you may be able to respond. That article said that you rang Mr. Moran twice on 17 and 18 November 2008 "to brief him on both Fine Gael and the then Fianna Fail-led government strategy". Mr. Kenny, can you confirm or not to the inquiry as to whether these conversations took place? What was the purpose of these conversations, if they did take place? Who initiated the conversations?...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: What timeframe is prior to the crash? Just to-----
- 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: Okay. Was-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Was it one call or two calls? The article says it was twice.
- 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: Okay. Mr. Kenny, Mr. Moran, in the article continues to talk to say that Mr. Moran in an e-mail to David Drumm said ... and, again I'm quoting from the paper. It says, "Enda says we are to be an 'offshoot' of [Bank of Ireland]." Did you inform Mr. Moran that this was-----