Results 1,301-1,320 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----factual.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But "nuance" is a polite word-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----for a change. Isn't it? A nuance is a polite word for changing something that ... those arguably were quite significant points that were made in that document.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, so they're not-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So calling them nuanced seems to me to soften them a bit. I'm arguing that it's no wonder that the advice was similar.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I'm asking. The advice your ... you have said in your statement is similar, I'm saying its similar for a very good reason and that is that the Department of Finance had an input into the advice.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thanks, Chair. Mr. Cardiff, why was there not a merger of ILP, INBS and EBS as a joint building society? It was one of the options that was considered. Why did it not happen?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did the troika have a particular view or were they taking the advice, the knowledge on the ground, or were they saying, "There has to be something ..."?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And that was their viewpoint was it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: If the bailout had been agreed earlier than it was, would there ... would it have reduced the burden on taxpayers ultimately? Would it have been wiser to go earlier?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: When Mr. Honohan made the phone call to RTE that morning, you said earlier that if you'd had even an hour ... I think you said "If I'd had more than an hour's notice ...". Did you have any notice, is the question? Did you know he was going to do that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No notice, okay. Now, he will give evidence to say that part of the reason he made the phone call on that day was that the previous day had seen an outflow of €900 million of retail deposits, by far the largest daily figure before or since. Do you remember that figure and do you remember whether there was concern about that figure or that whole question?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Beausang will give in evidence today that his e-mail records show that at 21:11, he's very precise about that, so that's 11 minutes past nine, and I'm going back to the night of the guarantee now ... switch your head ... he received a document intended to be a draft Government press release announcing the introduction of a guarantee for the domestic banks: It appears to have been...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Their press releases, the drafts, which Mr. Beausang has actually provided to us, are quite similar to the eventual draft, so, you know, I mean, there are some changes, but they're very similar. So, you never saw those drafts, is that ... am I correct in understanding that - the drafts that Mr. Beausang has provided?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, I suppose I'm just curious as to know why they were so early in the day. Now, in that original draft it said the Government guarantee will remain in place initially for six months. Obviously, that's not what materialised at the end. Do you recall whether there was an agreement or a suggestion of a six-month guarantee, and at what point it might have changed to a two-year guarantee,...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Do you recall whether you might have had a personal view about six months or two years or-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: I have two short questions. The night of the guarantee, was that the first, if you like, big meeting that took place with the Taoiseach, in that way?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: No.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. And was there ... there has been suggestions made that there was a tacit understanding that nationalisation of Anglo could follow the following weekend, and various suggestions were made that that then didn't happen because the guarantee appeared to work, for want of a better word. Was ... is that your memory or is that a complete fabrication?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And finally, can I-----