Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I'm just going to clarify ... I will rephrase that question and reframe it again just to get 100% certainty from you, Mr. Hurley. Professor Honohan was wrote ... wrote to this committee after being asked a very specific question with regard to your powers as Governor following his deliberations with this committee on the Honohan report. He took time out to give a very considered response. He felt he wasn't able to answer it comprehensively enough when ... in his engagement with us and subsequently followed up that response with a very considered response outlining a series of actions which, he is saying, were your powers. Whether you availed of them or not is what's not being debated right now, but that they were your powers.