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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Seizures (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the amount, in value, of illegal drugs seized in each of the past five years. [24328/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus fáilte roimh an tUasal Cardiff. Thanks for your extensive reading material. Can I just go back to what Senator O'Keeffe was talking about in terms of the AIB document that was provided. Can you just quickly answer a couple of questions? Was it a one-page document or was there a number of pages in the document?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It wasn't even a one-page document, okay. And did they provide one copy or was there other copies provided?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. And can I ask you just how certain ... bearing in mind, we're trying to recollect events that happened, because there has been evidence given under oath that a document wasn't provided. So, how certain are you that the banks provided a document outlining the type of guarantee that they wanted?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Of course.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay and the 12 drafts of the statement that you mentioned in your opening statement that were created, were any of them circulated or were they saved on your computer, or were they just ... was it an open file that kept continued to be edited?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So, none of those documents were ... none of those drafts were circulated at any time to the meeting ... any of the 12 drafts?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Oh, they were ... so ... okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It wasn't a case of people crouching over a laptop and looking at the screen and working on an open document?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Who would have been in charge of the meeting that would have the authority to destroy documents as you outlined earlier on?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: But who would be the person that would make ... like ... this wasn't a Government meeting. Would you agree?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. So, we know ... we don't have access ... well, to my knowledge, we don't have access to any of the 12 drafts or thereabout of your statement, we don't have access to the AIB document in terms of the guarantee. So, either they are lying somewhere in the Department of Finance or they were destroyed. The question I would ask is who would actually, at that meeting, take the decision?...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay, okay. You say in your statement, "We already knew", this in relation to the bankers coming in and informing their view of the banks. You say in your statement, "We already knew they were in trouble." Can you explain how you knew and who communicated that information to you and what detail did you have at an individual bank level or an aggregate level of the issues within the bank in...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: No, my question, Mr. Cardiff is-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but my question is you are saying you knew after the bankers came in and told you that Anglo were going to default the following day.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: But that's my question. How did you know?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: That is the question I asked you. How did you know? Who told you and what level of information did you have in relation to Anglo going to default the next day?