Professor John FitzGerald:

-----but they were unhelpful and, therefore, largely ignored. If what the Deputy is getting at is the suggestion that the Department told us what to say regarding the economy, the answer is "No". He can get the comments and he will see there is nothing about that in them. It was our mistake. What I was interested in was whether the Department was saying that what we said was being too ambitious but it did not do so.