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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: What did ye do in that first committee, the audit committee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did you have the technical knowledge for that post?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And do you believe that the board itself had the requisite composite technical knowledge to take on management in terms of proposals that were put to the board?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Your institution showed an increased reliance on wholesale funding from 2005 to finance the growth in loan portfolio. Were you aware of these issues? Did you regard it as a fundamental risk and how confident were you in the society's ability to meet its funding strategy in 2008? Were you aware of the fact that the wholesale funding went from effectively nearly over 70% of the ... sorry the...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did you bring it up at board level?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: What was your assessment of liquidity and solvency of the society on the night of the guarantee, on that fateful night on the 30 September 2008?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Both - of EBS.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: When you say you all knew you were heading for the rocks, did the board know?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did you discuss it at the board in terms of-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did it come up at the board meetings that there would be a need for a Government State guarantee for the banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: At all?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: You make reference to on the final page of your statement, you said, "But my sense, as a citizen of Ireland and as a director of EBS for nine years, is that there is a deeply unhealthy relationship between all four." And you are talking about Government, the Oireachtas, the banking sector and the property sector. Can you explain what you mean by that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was there similar type meetings with EBS?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But do you know that such meetings took place?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are you expressing an opinion without back-up evidence to the effect that it happened?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do you know what the circumstances were of that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do you believe that in your going forward what should be the structure in terms of corporate governance vis-à-visfinancial institutions in dealing with the institutions of the State and politicians and Central Bank and various others, the Oireachtas and so forth? What is in your view the type of protocol that should be in place?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you. Chairman.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Jul 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Welcome, Mr. Gormley and Ms Harney. A question for Ms Harney. With the establishment of the single ... of the whole, I suppose, regulation ... the new regulation mechanism and, prior to that, your Department was in charge of the insurance sector. Do you believe there was a knock-on effect in terms of the regulation of the insurance sector? And I'm saying that in mind with what has happened...