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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: On Senator D'Arcy's question, what period are we talking about here?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: It is pre-guarantee.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator D'Arcy is over time. I call Deputy Phelan.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: A last question, Deputy Phelan.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I am going to move on, because we are way over time.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I need to move things on, because this committee room is scheduled for use at 2.30 p.m. and we are way over time for both sessions today.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator O'Keeffe, you know the rules. You know from your own experience the problem with accusations of lying.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Please. Actually, I will ask you to withdraw the question and put it again.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Can you reformulate that question? I do not even want it on the record.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: The Senator's seven minutes have just elapsed. I call Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That has been laid down here as well. In Professor Honohan's earlier engagements with this inquiry, the issue of revisiting this during the nexus phase was discussed. It is already a matter of record.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask Deputy Doherty to put his final question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We need to wrap it up.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I bring matters to a conclusion by bringing in Deputies Higgins and O'Donnell, I would like to clear one or two matters up with Dr. Donovan. I welcome his comments and views on the inquiry and the work it is doing. His position seems to have evolved from his earlier one. Has Dr. Donovan's position on the guarantee evolved, or is it very much what is was? He previously suggested in...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: The IMF does not do guarantees; it does bailouts. Dr. Donovan has 35 years' of experience of IMF interventions, etc. In his view, did the way in which the guarantee was designed have anything to do with Ireland being obliged to enter a bailout programme some two years and two months after its introduction?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Was how the guarantee was designed in any way related to Ireland entering a bailout programme two years and two months after its introduction?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Does the bailout have a relationship to the guarantee at any significant level?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Do the bailout and the guarantee have a relationship to one another?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We are in the process of wrapping up proceedings. The Deputy should not seek to revisit these matters in detail.