Ms Josephine Feehily:

I must say that I did not read his statement in that way. I was not available at the weekend. I do not know precisely what he called on us to do, but I explained to the Minister for Finance what we were doing and why, he briefed the Cabinet and made that publicly known on Tuesday afternoon. I imagine that by that route, the Tánaiste has been briefed on the position and on the reasons the tax is being administered in this way.

I do not propose to go beyond that. Obviously, I would be at the disposal of the Tánaiste if he wanted to talk to me.