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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I will give the Deputy back time but he cannot use language like that. He will have to withdraw that comment and rephrase the question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: A question please, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy, I-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I am giving you a lot of latitude but you are way over time.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: You took a lot of time talking without asking a question. I will facilitate one short question but I will not allow commentary.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That is a leading question. Just ask the question. Professor FitzGerald is here for one day. I manage the questions every day.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask you to ask the question. You know what a leading question is as it has just been described to you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask you just to ask the question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. I call Deputy Joe Higgins.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I wish to interject and shall give Deputy Higgins back some time. The professor has acknowledged his regret on several occasions this morning. I advise members of the committee not to repeatedly ask the same question in order to get him to say it on the record. At this stage the professor has stated his regret between eight or ten times.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We will wrap up after this section.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Deputy Higgins and Professor FitzGerald. I propose we suspend the meeting and resume at 11.25 p.m. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I propose that the committee resume in public session to recommence our engagement with Professor FitzGerald. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I move on to the next speaker may I put one question on that to Professor FitzGerald? In the stress testing proposal that AIB brought forward to him, was the issue of credit concentration limits actually part of that examination?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Just to put a framework on what Deputy Murphy has been saying, in his earlier engagement with this inquiry, Rob Wright spoke about the information loop that should be in place between the Department of Finance, the Government of the day and maybe the Central Bank and other agencies. He said such a loop will provide a voice to take either pro-cyclical or counter-cyclical decisions on the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Going from memory, I would not ask Professor FitzGerald to use names, but he could identify the level from which those responsible were coming.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That may be a bit leading.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I know.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That is a leading question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (11 Feb 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, but you do not-----