Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman and Professor FitzGerald. I want to look in the first instance at the relationship between the ESRI and the Department of Finance. I think Professor FitzGerald said earlier that in the interactions between the ESRI and the Department of Finance, he clipped them and they would grin and bear it but then in the last decade they became more grumpy. When he released the 2005 medium term review there was a different reaction, a tone change and a lot more media attention around it and much more coverage. Did Professor FitzGerald pay attention to that reaction to the medium term review in the press?