Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet:

I will certainly have utilised metaphor of that kind ... would have been totally not in line with the relationship I had with the Government. What I certainly said, because we had discussed that in the governing council of the ECB, was that it was unwise to do that. And that was our strong feeling at the time where Ireland was helped by us more than any other country in ... as I already said, in Europe, and perhaps in the world.

So let's put yourself in the situation. We have a country which is progressively regaining competitiveness in very, very difficult times. We expressed only the sentiment of the Governing Council to the Government or Ireland. The Government of Ireland is responsible and the Government of Ireland takes decisions.