Results 701-720 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Sorry, and if you don't know it's fine-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Absolutely, it's a practice rather than a ... it's the idea of separating the property asset from the tax allowance and selling it on. But I suspect that, because of what you said before, you didn't do that much business in that area?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No, so thank you. That's fine. Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, thanks. I just have four questions, very briefly. Thank you, Mr. Mulryan. Mr. Bacon, we know is involved in the establishment of NAMA, and I'm not wishing to discuss NAMA, but did you have any opportunity to talk to Mr. Bacon about how NAMA might look or how an organisation like that might be set up?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. Were you paid a salary by NAMA while you were-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Sorry, I didn't realise. David Brophy was one of your directors, isn't he? Or one of your-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. He was also a director of INBS, isn't that the case?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: How did that arise and can ... could that have contributed to any conflict of interests that one of your directors was-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Of course.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you. And finally, figures that ... and I understand these were figures that were released, properly released by you in 2010, indicated that four directors of Ballymore would have been paid €2.9 million between them for 2010. I am just wondering how that fits with what you have been telling us earlier about how, you know, people worked very hard and sacrificed a lot. Again, to...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Mr. Gallagher, the memorandum from Merrill Lynch dated Sunday, 28 September - was your office requested or asked to assess the options that were outlined in that in terms of legal impediments or was it a piece of paper that just appeared along with other ones?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Had you ever been asked in the period, say, from November 2007 right up to that time? Had you been asked for legal advice in relation to any banks seeking ELA in that time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. So, you were asked that, I'm sorry, in November '07, is that what...?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: '07. And were you asked ever again or was it sufficient once you'd been asked, if you like?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Were they? That's fine.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And did any banks ... were you aware of whether any bank actually saw it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: On page 8 of your statement you say, "The Financial Regulator confirmed that none of the Banks were insolvent but stated that Anglo was illiquid and if that illiquidity were not immediately addressed Anglo would fail." Is that a direct quote from the Financial Regulator or is that your recall or-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Would that not suggest that the problem was more about insolvency than-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You have said that you were not party to the conversation that took place between Mr. Cowen and Mr. Lenihan. At any time in the night, did Mr. Cowen seek any private advice from you?