Results 461-480 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. And you said, "Yes".
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And that ... and you said that Mr. Cowen had told you that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, and he's just following up to know how and-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Aynsley, in your opinion, was the decision to liquidate the bank something that had been the ultimate objective all along?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Before I turn to the Department of Finance, can I just ask you, Mr. Aynsley, we've heard evidence about how difficult it was to get good evidence or good knowledge about the state of the banks in September 2008, particularly in relation to Anglo? Would it have been possible to have had information at least about the level of personal guarantees, the concentrations in various sectors and so...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----a job for real experts to spend real time on?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Why is that? Is that true of all banks or was it just true because of the convoluted-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, and I'm not asking you to.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Does that mean also, Mr. Aynsley, that for the bank executive, was it also difficult for them if it was piling one on top of the other? Would they equally have been losing track of their own system if it was not adequate?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you. Mr. Aynsley, can you recall whether there was a level of borrowings by the actual directors of the banks? I do not suppose there is a sort of-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I am not asking at all-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: It is a collective question. What I am just trying to establish is whether or not that level was higher or lower than any other experience you'd had, just in the broad sense. That is all I am asking. Was it higher or lower?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Dukes, if I may, you included in ADU-0002, it was the document, the letter that you wrote to Mr. Moran in 2011, where you talked about the decision to appoint another set of advisers - McKinsey. You said that was the Department's decision and one which has "retarded the bank's process and has added little value". You go on to say, "The McKinsey team, none of whom appear to have any real...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Were they removed?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, but you were asked to remove them, weren't you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You say, the bank should dispense with the services-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But why would the Department of Finance choose to put in, never mind the quality of them, but why would they choose to do that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But did they never say to you, look, you know, we have our own-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I can tell.