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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Deputy Kieran O'Donnell.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Mr. Fingleton, I am going to bring matters now to a final conclusion. In doing so I would like to give you the opportunity to invite you to make any final comments or thoughts or observations that you might mean to or would like to add as we conclude.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Mr. Fingleton. With that said, I'd like to thank you for your participation today and for your engagement with the inquiry and to now formally excuse you. I will be proposing to suspend the meeting until about 2.30 p.m. or so. If I can maybe just ask members of the committee to hang on for a few moments at the end of this, while the room is being cleared, just to deal with one...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I now propose as we are back in full quorum, that the committee of inquiry will now resume public session. Is that agreed? And can I ask members and those in the public Gallery to ensure that the mobile devices are switched off? Our focus today is on the Irish Nationwide Building Society, and we continue our hearings this afternoon with Mr. Michael Walsh, former non-executive chairman of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 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 of 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 (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Once again, Mr. Walsh, you are welcome before the committee this afternoon and, in doing so, can I invite you to make your opening remarks please?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much for your opening statement, Mr. Walsh. If I can invite Senator Susan O'Keeffe to commence questioning. Senator, you have 15 minutes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator O'Keeffe, leave a bit of time to respond as well now. Mr. Walsh.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator, I need you to wrap up.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: A supplementary, quickly.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. Deputy Joe Higgins. Deputy, 15 minutes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, the details of the settlement may be confidential; the process of it Mr. Walsh may wish to talk about but the details are-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: That would stand.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'll just clarify the situation. As I said, Deputy, the processes around how the ... how it was arrived at and the exploration of that are one thing but, as members would have been briefed, as they are briefed before each and every one of those sessions, if somebody coming in before this inquiry has signed a confidentiality agreement, and there are other aspects as well as this with the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: If you wish to explore that, I will indulge an extra bit of time in that. With regard to the sum, it's a different matter.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, a short supplementary, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'll be bringing you back in at the end again, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. I'll be bringing you back in again, Deputy Higgins. I just want to clear up one or two items now that the leads are finished before I bring in the other questioners, Mr. Walsh. And one relates to ... on 7 September 2008, Mr. Purcell and two of his colleagues attended a meeting at the Central Bank on behalf of INBS together with representatives from AIB and Bank of Ireland. Mr....

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. And who was actually at the meeting that you can recall if they were representing-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----INBS and the other banks?