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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (6 May 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, thanks.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: Thank you very much, Mr. Trichet. You are welcome. You said in your opening statement ... you spoke particularly to do with the burning of bondholders, the treatment of senior debt, that this option was extremely risky for Ireland, in your own words. You also spoke of the terribly agitated sea in which Ireland was but one boat. Against this background, presumably with the euro tying all...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: So at no time, is it fair to say, "yes" or "no", that Mr. Lenihan exercised the preference to burn bondholders?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: Did Mr. Lenihan ever express the view that the Irish Government intended and wished to burn the bondholders?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: You have no memory of him saying that they would like ... that the Irish Government would like to burn bondholders? Is that the case?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: But not him. Can I ask, is it a matter of fact or not, that the decision not to burn bondholders was one that had a fiscal cost on the Irish people of €4 billion. Would you agree or not with that statement?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: This is an opinion, of course, that was-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: Sorry, can you repeat that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: Like you were considering all 15 votes, I am only interested in the buoyancy of one, as you will appreciate.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: You mentioned that ... you mentioned that ... in your statement ... that you provided advice only, in the context of the issue of senior votes. Can I ask, did that advice manifest itself at any time in the form of letters, as the advice provided in that of 19 November?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: So there is no correspondence between the ECB and the Irish Government in the context of burning bondholders.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: In 2010? Or '11?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: Not to your knowledge. Would you think-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: Were there telephone ... were there telephone in context, providing advice, similar in tone to that provided in the letter of 19 November?.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: Very difficult, yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: I understand. Can you say, with absolute certainty, that Brian Lenihan or the Irish Government, never saw it, to burn the bondholders?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: No, I'm asking you. I'm asking you, can you say, with absolutely certainty, that the Irish Government of the day, where Brian Lenihan was the Minister for Finance, did not seek to burn the bondholders? This is what you implied because you said you remembered Minister Noonan, the next Minister-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: -----seeking to do it. Would you-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: Would you agree-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Institute of International and European Affairs
Governance of the ECB: Past, Present and Future (30 Apr 2015) Marc MacSharry: So it is possible in your view, or impossible?