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

Ciarán Lynch: Senator MacSharry?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Allow him to answer now, please, Senator.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Well, there is a majority-----

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

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Senator, and I want to bring matters to a conclusion, if I can. And if I can put a question to yourself, Minister Bruton. Very simply, as Opposition spokesperson for finance, what level of contact did you have yourself with the banking sector during the growing crisis years, including that of the IFSC? During that period of time, were you subjected to lobbying by...

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

Ciarán Lynch: One of the propositions that this inquiry will have to ... will test and has been testing is the following: that principles-based regulation was a universal framework in which all OECD countries and associated ... operated within, but a proposition could be made that light-touch regulation was an interpretation of it in this jurisdiction that made principles-based regulation ... or...

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

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. I had one or two other questions but Senator MacSharry actually took them for me, so I'll actually move on to the next ones. The issue of ... finally, is the issue of the soft landing and the general political consensus that could be proposed or suggested that everyone was very much in a groupthink, both Government and Opposition ... that everybody ... that, okay, there was going to...

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

Ciarán Lynch: But I-----

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

Ciarán Lynch: I'll return to the root of my question though, Mr. Bruton ... or, Minister Bruton. As a ... as if ... the senior person in opposition in any political party other than the party leader is the finance spokesperson. It is the person who engages in all the big operations inside in the House. You do it for Question Time, you do it for parliamentary questions, Ministers' question time, all the...

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

Ciarán Lynch: Of course, yes.

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: The general consensus was, particularly in 2006 onwards, that there was going to be a soft landing. At any time, did you ask the Department of Finance to produce evidence to you, that was of their own manufacturing, that there was a soft landing coming?

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

Ciarán Lynch: I just ... I appreciate all that-----

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

Ciarán Lynch: -----but I just need to confirm one thing and I'm not asking you a "Yes" or "No" question. I just need you to confirm for me or not was ... were you provided of ... this is evidence owned and supported by the Department of Finance, not analysis of external views, but a ... supporting evidence or evidence-based material of the Department of Finance, was it provided to you, or did you seek it,...

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.

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

Ciarán Lynch: All right, I'm going to move to wrap up. Deputy Pearse Doherty. Deputy, you've three minutes.

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

Ciarán Lynch: We'll bring it back in, Deputy.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Give a bit of time, Deputy, to respond.

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

Ciarán Lynch: You're drifting out of ... I'm ready to make an intervention, I don't want to do that so can I get you to ask your question.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Fair enough, now one second. I'll assist both you and the witness.