Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I remember on 10 October 2009, following the 16 September 2009 presentation of the NAMA project with the figures, the combination of Ollie Rehn, President Barroso, Joaquín Almunia and Professor Patrick Honohan said it was their pressing wish that the Irish Government would see the imperative to get the NAMA legislation in place as fast as possible. If that is not a strong army I do not know what is, yet how that level of pressure came to bear and pass was never discussed. It is those sorts of things that I am concerned about. They are the areas to focus on rather than getting lesser things that might make a personal story into the cross-hairs.