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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Yes. Given the facts in the Harmony report and what we have seen about there not being a highly developed approach to risk assessment or a sophisticated information system, I mean, is that growth rate prudent or sustainable?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: "Interested in buying the society" but let's look at this idea of prudence. I mean, if they're saying that you do not have a highly developed approach to risk assessment, how can you judge the risk or a prudent decision?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Why would the report note this then? Why would this be picked out an issue?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Okay. So the relevance of those points, as in Project Harmony, relate to if the buyer decides to diversify out of what you see as a very simple banking function up to that point in time.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Okay. The final area I want to look at in the limited time I have is coming back to the regulator. Because one of the titles ... subheadings in your written statement is "Lost Opportunity". You talk about the society reversing the engines before any other institution. So, when you decided to make that ... when you made that decision in December 2007 and the regulator at the time was doing...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Thank you. It's just then my final question. So, in your view, did the Financial Regulator ever take that leadership role?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Thank you, Mr. Walsh. Thank you, Chair.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Thank you, Chairman. And thank you, Mr. Drury, you're very welcome.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In the written opening statement that you provided to the committee, under the line of inquiry for the committee, "Appropriateness of the relationships between Government, the Oireachtas, the banking sector and the property sector", you wrote, "This is not something I believe I am equipped to answer." Why did you write that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Okay, well just on that then, in relation to your role as a non-executive director for Anglo Irish Bank from 2004-2008, in that role, did you establish contacts between the bank and the Government?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: But-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Are you saying that when you were a non-executive director of Anglo Irish Bank, you never made a contact with the Minister for Finance or the Taoiseach on behalf of the bank?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Well, I'm sorry, how do you explain then the phone call that you organised between-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: No, no. I'm asking why-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: -----in your written statement-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: If I could just-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In your written statement, you said you believed you were not equipped to answer on the appropriateness of relationships between the Government and the banking sector. And when I asked you to elaborate on that, you said that you were here to account for your role as a non-executive director of Anglo, and that that didn't pertain to that line of inquiry. And then I asked you if, as a...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Jul 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Yes, but I want to clarify that because-----