To a 9-inch brick?
One of Tom Bailey's sheep - probably
One of Mick Bailey's horses - posssibly
The Flood Tribunal has been called a ‘Frankenstein spiraling out of control’, but it could often be more like the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, as this re-enactment of one of the more surreal cross-examinations of the whole proceedings shows.
Things get curiouser and curiouser by the minute as Counsel for the Tribunal Mr.Des O’Neill as the Mad Hatter asks the March Hare Michael Bailey to explain to him what 30 grand in an envelope would look like.
of this cross-examination.
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Des O’Neill
You saw the transaction of the hand-over, is that right?
Michael Bailey
That is correct.
Des O’Neill
And were these packages handed over individually or were they both handed over together?
Michael Bailey
They were handed over together
Des O’Neill
And can you describe, insofar as you can, the approximate size of either of these two packages?
Michael Bailey
They were - I would say they were brown envelopes, and about 9 inches by 7 inches, or maybe 9 by 9 - that type of a brown business-type envelope.
Yes. Were they both the same bulk?
Michael Bailey
I can’t recall that.
Des O’Neill
Were they both the same size - if empty, put it that way?
Michael Bailey
I believe they were.
Des O’Neill
And how bulky were they?
Michael Bailey
They seemed reasonably bulky, I thought.
Des O’Neill
The envelopes you are telling us about are 9 by 9, and quite bulky?
Michael Bailey
That’s correct.
Des O’Neill
By reference to, say, the size of a 9-inch brick, can you say how thick they would have been?
Michael Bailey
To a 9-inch brick?
Des O’Neill
Yes.
Is there such a thing?
Des O’Neill
Well, you tell me. I am not a builder.
Michael Bailey
I never seen a 9-inch brick.
It’s a 9-inch block, isn’t it? Is there a 9-inch block, Mr. Bailey?
Michael Bailey
9 inches by 9 inches? You know -- there is a 9-inch block but it’s not a 9 by 9 block. It’s a 9 by 4 block and if this one -- this might be a 9 by 2 block. I am not being - I am trying to –
I am just wondering how thick it was.
I think it was probably about a 9 by 2 block of a brown bag.
And is that the sum total of both or –
Michael Bailey
That’s my recollection, a 9 by 2 - if you want to put it into - that’s a new one to me.
Is that the content of one envelope or the contents of two?
I believe it was the two.
The two wou1d have totalled that?
The two would be two 9 by 2s.
Two 9 by 2s?
Blocks, yeah…
So the size of a 9 by 4 then in total, which is a block, as far as I know?
If you want -- well we’ll say a 9 by 4, cut in two.
Right.
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