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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Before hearing from the witness, I wish to advise the witness that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect to their evidence to this committee. If you are directed by the Chairman to cease giving evidence in relation to a particular matter and you continue to do so, you are entitled thereafter only to a qualified...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Once again, welcome, Mr. Moran, and if I can invite you to make your opening comments or remarks to the committee please.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Mr. Moran, for your opening statement and if I can invite Deputy Eoghan Murphy to commence questioning. Deputy, you have 20 minutes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: You have five minutes left, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: It's a Financial Regulator document, so it won't be displayed.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: You're out of time, Deputy. Do you want to put a supplementary?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. Senator Sean Barrett. Senator, 20 minutes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Or did you?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Wait now, hold up, that is a judgment and Mr. Moran would be need to be asked as to his recollection of it or any reaction to that.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Please, just one second, now, hang on a second. It’s a bit more serious than this actually. I’ll ask you, Senator, to just go through the facts of the engagements. Our job is to hear the evidence being presented, to, at a later time, apply a value judgment if required, and to present the meetings and engagements in a more neutral tone, which allows Mr. Moran to inform the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Could I maybe reframe that: the industry took any challenging view towards it seriously and decided to engage in it in a very serious manner?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I've just one interjection there on that, just sorry. Was ... in terms of a strategy or a ploy, was Anglo engaged in a similar ploy? You said that you'd all these parties that were trying to increase their share fold or to make share ... share drop, to present a best image of themselves; big PR campaign; very challenging and aggressive position to anything that might challenge the corporate...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: And your engagement with these personalities, was that part of the strategy to ... by Anglo to challenge any dissenting or critical views of it that might be out there in the media or in the marketplace?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. My apologies. This can make up a bit of time there. Senator Barrett, back to yourself there.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: How familiar were you with those processes, Mr. Moran?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Four times.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Senator Barrett. Mr. Moran, if we might just stay with you for a moment, I just want to deal with one question and then I'll bring in the other questioners now that the leads have completed. Mr. Moran, in June 2008 Anglo prepared a financial projections for the 2008 to 2012 period. This is less than, what, four or five months before the guarantee and just about six...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry. No, it's actually pages 17 to 23 of Vol. 2. That's where it is, sorry.