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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Senator. Deputy Pearse Doherty.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you. Deputy Kieran O'Donnell.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: You're out of time now, Deputy, so I'll push you for the question.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Final question.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I just want to deal with one or two matters there before I bring Deputy Phelan, who's next. One comes back to ... I think in your earlier comment this morning, Mr. Cowen, in your opening statement to the committee ... or, sorry in his opening statement to the committee, Mr. Liam Kelleher, former director general of the Construction Industry Federation states, "Representation and lobbying has...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Mr. Cowen. Why were the NTMA outside the room on the night of the guarantee and only consulted for ... on one single aspect of the guarantee, which was the relationship of the guarantee to the subsidiaries of Irish banks that were held overseas and so forth?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Did you know the NTMA were outside the room, Mr. Cowen?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: I'd like you to add to Mr. Cardiff's testimony, please Mr. Cowen, if you don't mind, as to your understanding of the purpose of the NTMA being in Government Buildings that night. Did you know that they were there and for what purpose------
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: -----were they called over for?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Did you ... but ... Mr. McDonagh was called in along with another official that night from the NTMA, they were outside the door for several hours. Do you know for what purpose, because Mr. McDonagh was not able to explain to us as to what purpose he was over there for, in his testimony------
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Did ... were you-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: -----aware that the NTMA were outside the door no?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Were you aware that the NTMA were outside the door?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Why didn't-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Well you've established that you were familiar that the senior official, Mr. Somers, and another official were away overseas. We'll be dealing with Mr. Somers tomorrow when he comes in. But, NTMA officials were sought on the evening of the guarantee, the biggest financial decision made in the history of this State, and they were outside the door. Is your testimony to the inquiry...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: If the NTMA's position was known in the room and the officials were called in later in the night to talk about the extended matters of the guarantee, what was the purpose of calling Mr. McDonagh and his associate that evening?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Did he ... who ... did the NTMA, either through Mr. McDonagh or Mr. Somers or any other official, express to you or were you aware of any view that the NTMA may have had with regard to the moulding, the design and the shape of the guarantee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Like ... what I'm asking you is, were you aware at any time either in the course of the evening or prior to calling the meeting that evening, as to any expression or view that the NTMA may have had with regard to the shape, the design and the inclusivity of the guarantee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)
Ciarán Lynch: Of which?