Results 16,801-16,820 of 26,223 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But sure, there must have been an instruction, you were-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And you spent the next 20 minutes - who did you work on with, the statement?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister for Finance's press officer?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Who was that at the time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: And what did you ... so you spent the next 20 minutes working on it.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where did that press statement subsequently go?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, no, all I want to know is the sequence of events.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But sure, did it stay with Eoin Dorgan, the Government press secretary?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why would you have been involved in doing ... in working on the press statement on this guarantee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But why you? Why you particularly, would they have come to? Had you a position, were you dealing with this particularly?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: So you would have got this from David Doyle, who would have been obviously forwarded this on from him to you, you worked with Eoin Dorgan who was the Minister of Finance's press secretary. Now, these two statements, the draft Government press release, which is document TAB AM, and then TAB AN, which is the revised version, right, there's no great difference in those documents bar you say the...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, we've had many witnesses come in and say that there was no decision taken on any guarantee until, until a.m. on 30 September 2008. We here have a draft of a Government guarantee which came to you, that you received from David Doyle, the then general secretary of the Department of Finance, at 11 minutes past nine on the evening of the 29th. The question I want to know is ... which is six...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, no, I only want ... I'm purely dealing with the press statement you received, the draft press statement you received on 29 ... at 9.00-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Had you seen previous drafts?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Had you had discussions with the Central Bank regarding looking at putting a guarantee in place?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, final question. Were discussions taking place with the Central Bank and the Department of Finance about putting a guarantee in place, as in this draft, which was a six-month guarantee, just for deposits - did not cover bondholders? Were discussions taking place prior to the night of the guarantee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But is it not fair to say, Mr. Beausang-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Beausang, from what you've provided us here with the draft press statement, was a guarantee not already decided by Government ... the outline of a guarantee, which was a guarantee for all deposit holders for six months for the six institutions? Was that not already decided by Government?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. Why not?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (24 Jun 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: But you had received ... you had received an e-mail from David Doyle, the then general secretary of the Department of Finance, to work with the Government press secretary for the Minister of Finance, Eoin Dorgan, to come up with a statement.