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1214:32:001 Q. 70 What I am anxious to establish and I think you agreed with me. That it would2 be the case, if you didn't know in advance that such a meeting was taken place3 you would have known that a meeting had taken place obviously?4 A. That's a strong possibility, yes.14:32:145 Q. 71 And certainly it can't have been a meeting in connection with the financing of6 Barkhill, isn't that correct, because those meetings had taken place in January7 and March and I think a sanction had issued from the bank in June '93 and had8 been accepted on the 24th of June '93?9 A. No, I think there are different types of meetings that you have with the bank.14:32:3410 From time to time, we have been invited to the bank to meet with various senior11 people. Nothing specific on an agenda, it can be a lunch, just a dinner in the12 evening. And this happens on a reasonably regular basis. It is a general13 update on where our business is going, it's a general update on the bank's14 desire to fund other opportunities and generally to discuss business going14:32:5815 forward. These are, as I say, semi social and not specifically related to any16 particular job.17 Q. 72 By July '93, the bank had advanced additional funds to enable the project, as18 they saw it at that time, to go forward to planning?19 A. Yes, certainly there were funds advanced to go forward to planning, yes.14:33:1920 Q. 73 Insofar as the rezoning was concerned. There had been a successful vote in21 December '92 and a further vote on the Written Statement in early June '93.22 A. I think certainly.23 Q. 74 4th of June '93?24 A. I remember the December vote certainly and --14:33:3725 Q. 75 I think it would be fair to say that the bank regarded you as a key man and26 held both yourself and Mr. O'Callaghan in very high esteem at this stage?27 A. Not too sure that that was always the case but certainly we worked hard on this28 project.29 Q. 76 We know for example at 9839 on the 2nd of July 1993, in a note to the director14:33:5930 of Arc Life, Ms. Basquille described you, if you look at the second paragraphPremier Captioning & Realtime Limitedwww.pcr.ie Day 881