Professor Patrick Honohan:

The Deputy will not get very many answers if he asks for evidence of a conversation. In preparing the report very quickly at a time when there were probably other very important matters to be attended to, I spoke to many people. I do not have detailed notes of all the conversations I had with the Second Secretary General of the Department of Finance. I am not going to get into this. It is not material. The Deputy is asking me about my knowledge of something that happened before. If there turns out to be a conflict of evidence with Mr. Cardiff or Mr. Doyle, the Deputy can call me back. There seems to be no conflict of evidence between what I am saying and what Mr. Doyle is saying.