Results 721-740 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Were you party to the conversation that Mr. Cowen had with Mr. Gray on the telephone?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did Mr. Cowen seek any advice having had that phone call? Did he come back and offer something that then required any legal assistance or discussion?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No. Were you involved, or were you asked to look at the advice that Mr. Gray had given in writing prior to that night, where he recommended various ... he laid out certain-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----things? Was that ever brought to your attention?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. At any point in the months leading up to September, was your advice sought in relation to the contracts for difference involving the Quinn Group and Anglo and, in particular, were you asked anything about the insurance component that had been taken from Quinn to pay-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay, so no one ever sought your advice-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----just being clear, thank you. On 13 September, Anglo was in touch with the Department for Finance looking for ... to do a deal with the INBS. It talked about having a private funding and liquidity comfort part to that. I'm just wondering and if you haven't seen it, that's fine but, were you ever aware of that? Was it ever brought to your attention for legal advice?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Corrigan gave advice, sorry, gave in his statement to this inquiry that, in December 2008, he and others were in conversation in a meeting particularly with the Department of Finance in December 2008; trying to persuade the Department that the point had come to nationalise Anglo. So this was seven weeks or eight weeks after the guarantee. Were you aware, were you ... was your advice...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And then lastly, there was in ... on 24 April there was an e-mail sent in which advice was being sought by the Department of Finance in relation to amending the State Guarantees Act 1954-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Again, was that part of your work?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And finally, Chair, can you recall when was the first time that you might have been asked for the legal advice specifically relating to a blanket guarantee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So you were already in that place?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 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. What was your ... sorry, gentlemen, thank you. What was your advice to the Department on the actual legal position regarding the deposit guarantee scheme? Now, I appreciate you may not have had, so if ... that's fair enough. That was approved by Government on 20 September, which I appreciate was prior to your coming on-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I'm sorry. But wasn't enacted until ... in legislation until next ... until the following year. So did you have any hand, act or part in that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. So if we go back then to your appointment, were ... how did it come about that you were appointed on 24 September? Had you been forewarned, maybe earlier on in the month, that such a ... or was it an out-of-the-blue moment? And could you just tell us how that happened?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Right. And was that described to you then as an emergency or a crisis or what were the words that were used to explain how you'd got a call out of the blue?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And, forgive me, well ... perhaps people don't understand ... maybe watching ... the public at large, but why the State would need to, if you like, employ outside lawyers to work, if you like, effectively with the Attorney General's office in order to produce legislation that, in fact, we're supposed to be able to do ourselves. So why was that that you were brought in at that point?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I think you said that you weren't given a timeline ... you weren't told, I don't think, that "We need this by Friday," or "We need this by Monday." Am I correct? Did I understand that correctly?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: However, you have observed that it was clearly a very serious situation, so-----