Results 761-780 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Surely you should have made the decision?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But how is that something to be proud of when we've seen what happened next?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay, I'm sorry.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: In relation to the various warnings that were proffered by people like the OECD, the IMF, the ESRI, and Deputy Murphy went through some of those, and I know you've acknowledged here that you read many of those, did you actually discuss those with officials, either in your own Department or the Department of Finance? Did you make any plans to deal with the, "Well, what if some of those do...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Ahern, when you were leaving and, obviously, there was briefings given, obviously, to Mr. Cowen and Mr. Lenihan coming in behind you ... I think you have these documents, DOF03151. This was a briefing document ... so I'm assuming that these would have been briefing documents you would have known about. The Department was saying, "We are now factoring a €2 billion shortfall in...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But these were the confidential documents that you would have seen, I'm ... you would have known the content of this as you left ... pretty much as you left, this is what you were leaving behind you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So what was going through your head as you left? Were you satisfied that the place was in good order? Were you worried? Were you ashamed that things were about to ... what were you thinking?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: At that same time, part of the information that was coming through and, I think, somebody referred to it earlier the ... the St. Patrick's Day massacre. What was your knowledge in relation to the contracts for difference, in relation to Seán Quinn and Anglo Irish Bank? What did you know? What had the Minister for Finance told you at that time? What had you had ... had you had any...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----signing off on the audited accounts and that money had been taken from the insurance part of Quinn?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Of the contracts for difference?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: You've no recollection?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: And in that briefing at your home what-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: In fairness, Chair. What was the nature of that, what was the level of his concern and what did you both, or either of you, do at that point in relation to the problem you had now just been appraised of?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Cowen wouldn't normally have come to your home, I take it, you know, just to brief you about something like that, would he?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you keep an eye on it, then, through the-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----that would have been, let's say, 20 March? Just bear with me, Chair.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Well, this is my last question.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That was around 20 March, we'll say-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (16 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: -----so you still had, whatever, eight weeks or so. So what did you do yourself in that period of time in relation to this?