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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you. I just need to deal with one matter before I move on. And that's just to come back to Senator MacSharry's earlier question is ... can you comment upon your relationship with the Ministers for Finance ... Minister McCreevy and Minister Cowen during your tenure as Governor in terms of regularity of meetings that you would have had with them on an annualised basis? Just in...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Under the ... because of section 33AK, I'm not going to bringing diary schedules up. But it would indicate that the meetings took place between 2001 and 2007 maybe seven to eight times annually, would that be correct?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, and-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: And in or around 2003, it would seem to indicate that meetings should be held with economists and senior loan officers, lending managers at the banks with the view to communicating the Central Bank's opinion of financial stability issues to them. Would you further like to ... would you further like to elaborate upon that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you very much. Next questioner is Deputy Kieran O'Donnell. Deputy, you've ten minutes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: A final question, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: This is very supplementary. Make it short.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry, the question is made. I'm moving on.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. I call Deputy Phelan.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: You're running over the time, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: There will ... a mental injury for myself, I think. Go on.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. Do you want a brief supplementary or are you finished? Thank you very much, Deputy. Senator Susan O'Keeffe.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: You're opening a whole new line of questioning here now, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, it's not in the core documents that Mr. Hurley has. Now, so I'm not going to open a whole new line of questioning, in particular-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Just a supplementary question, Senator, please.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I am moving on.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I am moving on. I need to move to it because we need to break for lunch as well and I need to bring the leads in as well to wrap up. Just to wrap up with some matters directly myself with you, Mr. Hurley, and I just want to reference the Nyberg report. It's evidence book Vol. 1, page 215, under the paragraph 441. In that paragraph, it says ... the heading is "The Central Bank Pre-Crisis...