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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Deputy. Mr. Chopra, a final reply and then I'm moving on.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much, Deputy Higgins. I'm going to go maybe to a short comfort break there at 11 o'clock. Just like television, we'll break for the 11 o'clock news. But just before that, if I can maybe just ask you one question, Mr. Chopra, and that is, if you can comment on a quote attributed to you, which is, "And on the financial side, regulation and supervision, which were deficient in...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you. With that said, I'm proposing a five-minute short break and, in doing so, just to remind Mr. Chopra that he is under oath and to advise any person he might have with him. With that said, I propose that we return at 11.05 a.m. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We will go back into public session, is that agreed? Agreed. And in continuing our questioning, I invite Senator Sean Barrett. Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. The next questioner is Senator Susan O'Keeffe.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Very quickly now, Senator, please.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: For the record, four times, Mr. Chopra. Okay, Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final question, Deputy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy, you're speechifying. A question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator Michael D'Arcy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I am sorry now. You are stepping outside the timeline of the inquiry as well, so come back into that space please, Mr. Chopra.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: In conclusion now, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'm going to start wrapping things up and I'm going to invite in two leads and then I'll make some concluding comments myself. So, Mr. Chopra, if there's anything else you want to add yourself, you're more than welcome to. But just on the earlier point there that Senator D'Arcy was pursuing with you on the way that the EFSF and the EFSM loans and the substantial extension of the maturities...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We might visit that as we conclude finally, so I'm going to invite the two leads back in - Deputy Phelan first and then Senator MacSharry.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: What were the implications if a backstop had been used? What would be-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Phelan.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator Marc MacSharry.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'm going to bring matters to a conclusion, Mr. Chopra, and maybe if I can just ask you one question and then we'll start looking towards the future. As an EU member, was Ireland ... which ... where Ireland was tied to the European Union and the European Central Bank for assistance, would you care to comment upon the suggestion that Ireland possibly suffered as a result of their inexperience...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, and what was the processes and dynamics of the learning that they had to have in that regard?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: And, in that regard, because all organisations - yourselves, the ECB and the European Union and so forth - would have had, kind of, cultural histories as regard to what their priorities were, the European Central Bank's priority would have been the stabilisation - or the instability, or the threat of it - of the euro and the eurozone. Did that have an impact with regard to how they would...