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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'm not talking about briefing, I'm talking about a communication strategy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you. Deputy Michael McGrath.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Thank you. Can I just remind members there with regard to phone distortion, because we have a tight, kind of, schedule today and questions have been allocated on a rotation of five, other members may not be asking questions in particular sessions, but there's a lot of phone distortion coming in. I'm asking members to turn off their phones. It's not acceptable to have your phone...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Bring it to closure and then I'm going to move on.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final question now, Senator, okay?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final question now, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I would say stop the clock but the clock is stopped.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'll give you a moment there Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We need to move on and ask supplementary.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. I'm going to move to wrapping things up, Ms Herbert. Ms Herbert, are you familiar with the term "spin doctor" and if you are, maybe you could explain how you understand it?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, the ... we ... in answer to questions by Deputy Doherty there earlier, you were saying that you would have been involved in Ministers' press releases, Ministers' statements, addresses to the Dáil. Were you part of that speech by Minister Lenihan that spoke about the "green shoots of recovery"?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: When was that wrote?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes. When was it?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: When he first used it?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: On reflection-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----on reflection, was that an accurate depiction of what was coming down the line?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. As I said earlier to you I don't expect you, and I don't think the committee is expecting you, to be an expert on finance but you would have been privy to discussions and you would have formed the presentation of a lot of matters that the Minister would have presented to the public. From your own observations of discussions and your own involvement with the Minister, were you aware of...