Mr. John Hurley:

-----there are different responsibilities and those responsibilities have to be carried in the way they're set out in legislation. My responsibility to the governing council and to the ECB is on the basis of that legislation. Clearly, there's a domestic responsibility here which has to be exercised in a particular way. And the way that was fulfilled, was through the ... through all of the reports at the Central Bank, through the financial stability reports, through the annual reports and through contact with Ministers, as appropriate.