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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: My ... my apologies if that ... if that's incorrect.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, but the question is that you never discussed a guarantee with anybody else outside of Kevin Cardiff?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: You have my apologies to Mr. ... my apologies to Mr. ... my apologies to Mr. McCreevy by stating as a fact, which I didn't determine what it was - it arises out of the fact that there's a chapter in this book called The FitzPatrick Tapescalled "Drinks with McCreevy [and] Dinner with Cowen" which gives, in great detail, a suggestion that there was a meeting between yourself and Seanie...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, can I just ... a couple of quick things. You say that you weren't personally close to any of the developers or builders, I think, in response to Deputy Joe Higgins. Is that a correct statement? There's-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Just let me finish the question. There's reports, and you may want to correct the reports, that you were personally very close friends with Sean Dunne and indeed were invited to his wedding in the Riviera ... which would be deemed as one of the major developers, so-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes. No, the only reason I ask you is because you've given evidence to this investigation to say, when you were on a line of questioning about the Galway tent and developers, you said, "I was not personally close to any builder." So, I just-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Well, sorry, you're entitled to your opinion in terms of my line of questioning. I was actually just-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: No, I was actually ... can I just point this out? This is evidence that you're providing to this committee and it's important that ... we're relying on your testimony as evidence. When you said, and you opened this, that you were not personally friends with any builder, then I was offering you the opportunity to correct the record in relation to your evidence-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----and, you know, whether that's ridiculous, allowing you that opportunity or not is different.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes. I'm sure many people watching this would ... would deem your interpretation of a friend, you know-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----they'll have different interpretations what a friend is, you know, and these days we have online friends and all the rest-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----and Facebook friends but having a definition of a friend that they ... you go on holidays with is a ... is another version of that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. Listen, can I ... can I ask you, in relation to ... can I ask you-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I was only ... I was only giving you an opportunity to not-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Thank you. You've also acknowledged that you, in your 2004 budget, which was delivered in 2003, extended many of the property tax reliefs to 2006. Can I ask you, in light of that, when you travel around the country, and particularly if you go to the Shannon region, if you go to Leitrim, if you go to Roscommon, what do you think when you see the ghost estates, some of them that were built as...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes and that's all well acknowledged in terms of tax revenue and employment, and the impact it had on the ... on those communities at the time. But what is your view in relation to counties such as Leitrim, which would nearly have to double its population to occupy the houses that were built under schemes that you introduced and extended?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The market didn't sign the Finance Bill, with respect.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: A Minister signed the Finance Bill and extended these schemes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. Can I just finally ... can I finally say this, because I was-----