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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And did he indicate that the Minister for Finance was favouring nationalisation?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: You met with the Minister for Finance, I think, on 7 September. Can you tell us what that meeting was for?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: So you didn't talk about banking and you didn't talk about the state of the banks, because it would have been coming back after the summer and things would have been starting to kick-off again, and the crisis would have been starting to make itself felt. So you're saying it was just about the economy and not about the banks.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Going back to Druids Glen, if I may,-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you. You said that the Taoiseach had asked you to come because-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----because, obviously, you knew the Taoiseach. And did he ask you by way of a phone call or an e-mail, and when he-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: A phone call directly to you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And when it was ... when Mr. Drury explained to you that this meeting would take place in a private house, in his house,-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----what was your opinion of that, because under normal circumstances I am sure you would meet the Taoiseach or a Minister in their own office, not in someone else's private house? So, how did it arise that you agreed to meet them in a private house?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: You don't play golf.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Finally, if I may, Chair,-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----when you put your outline ... your schedule and your agenda, it is clear that the schedule or the timeline that you gave for what you were proposing by way of a restoration of the economy, was stunningly tight. You know, you were talking about-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----Government agreeing in two weeks. In fairness, you know a lot about the way government works and you know that most people take a holiday in August, and your timeline was, if I might suggest, very ambitious indeed. So it looks like a very ambitious project that, if you like, really didn't fit with the kind of meeting. It looks like something from another day or another time that would...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: And how did that go down at the meeting when you said that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, I know. How did that go down when you made yourself ... your views clear?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Chair-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Could I have a point of clarification when you're ready?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, sorry. Mr. Gray, can I just clarify when you were on the phone to Mr. Cowen, was the subject of the Quinn Group, or the contracts for difference, or the dangers they were posing to Anglo, was that raised at all-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----in the conversation? No. Thank you.