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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Deputy, now I'll bring you back in again. Mr. Bruton.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. Thank you. Deputy Kieran O'Donnell.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: There is phone interference there. I can even hear it inside in the room at the moment, folks. Deputy John Paul Phelan.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. Senator Michael D'Arcy. Senator, ten minutes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Sorry, Senator, I'm going to have to make an interruption there, please. Look, it's not fair to witnesses, it's not fair to people who are trying to broadcast these proceedings and it's not fair to all others. Sometimes the phone issue is a proximity issue, it's not actually the person themselves, but it is people having ... all members need to have their phones in safe mode, all members....

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'll restart the clock here, I will indeed. Turn off the phone and I'll turn on the clock.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Very briefly, now, because you're over time.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I need to push on, Senator. If it's relevant-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Just ask the question, please.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. I just make one intervention here, now. The purpose of the witnesses today and in the next session is to account for their role. It's not for Government to be account ... or the witnesses here are not to be accounting for Government or Government decisions. It's their aspect to processes and decisions that were made at that time. Okay. Mr. Bruton.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Joe Higgins.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Joe Higgins.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final supplementary, Deputy, and then I'm going to call a break.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Higgins, I do understand what you need to push and I do need to come to a conclusion-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----so I'm just going to ask you to summarise very precisely-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: -----what you want.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: The question is made. Minister Burton ... no, not Minister Burton, my apologies.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. It's just coming up to 11.05 a.m, I'm proposing a five-minute comfort break to return and 11:10 a.m. In doing so, just to remind both Minister Bruton and the Taoiseach that you are under oath and that the session is now going ... suspended. Is that agreed? Agreed. Thank you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Right, what I'm now proposing to do is that we return back to public session. Once again to remind members about their mobile devices, please, because it has been problematic. And we're now back in public session, and in doing so I now invite Senator Susan O'Keeffe. Senator.