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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----and you're out of timeframe as well because we're into 2010. I just want to get one bit of shape on this before I move it on. With regard to either a soft landing or a hard landing, Mr. Cowen, are you aware or familiar with any testing or modelling of that that was conducted specifically by you and your Department, not external opinions such as the IMF or the OECD, but actually...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: But was that research that the Department of Finance done or was it observations from other financial institutions such as the ESRI?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator Marc MacSharry.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Let him answer the question, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Mr. Cowen. Deputy Michael McGrath.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'm going to move on Deputy ... or Mr. Cowen. I just want to stay with the ... just the theme, the general theme there Deputy McGrath was actually with you on, and that's something to do with CBFSAI and how the board was established and how appointments were made. And maybe you might talk in a general way as to how you appointed people to the boards? But maybe you could also specifically...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: And maybe if I could ask you to comment upon then, did you agree with your predecessor's appointments to the board of CBFSAI and the Financial Regulator?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: So in response to the earlier question with the appointment you had a familiarity with some of them and less of a familiarity with the others but it was based upon expertise rather than position and so forth. This brings me back to the question that Deputy McGrath was asking you, which was the sort of paradox that was taking place in the financial stability reports coming...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That paradox came to the attention of this committee in its recent hearings, following a line of questioning. Was that your first time hearing about that paradox or were you aware of it before the public hearings of this inquiry?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Doherty, I need to allow Mr. Cowen to respond. Mr. Cowen, please, you've got the floor.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Through the Chair, gentlemen, please.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Can I ask you to focus upon your actions, not the Opposition's or anybody else's?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I need you to wrap up now, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy, we're moving on.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy, we're moving on.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We'll be back in this afternoon on this, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Mr. Cowen-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry, gentlemen. Excuse me, Mr. Cowen, and excuse me, Deputy Doherty, please. You can cry all about your lunch and you're getting cranky but we need to get through the day's work we have to do. I just need to deal with one thing. You were talking there earlier about the liquidity issue - and then I'm going to bring in Senator O'Keeffe - and you were saying that liquidity had a...