Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

With due respect, Mr. O'Connell, a financial stability report came out in 2007 that said there was a soft landing. That's a total variance to what you've put in your statement to us here today and you're saying, at the same time, you stand over what's in the financial stability report, you might have an issue with the tone but not with its content. So the question is ... someone looking in with a reasonable interpretation, that if you felt as strongly as you felt based on what's in here, you should have resigned your position in the Central Bank, and made a statement in terms of your professional integrity as the chief economist of the Central Bank, if you felt that strongly, based on what you put in the statement here today.