Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It's interesting that you talk about assumptions. Can you ... can you clarify maybe your role. As chief economist of the Central Bank of Ireland, would it be a case where they, you know ... these types of statistics are available to the public, they're published by the Revenue. I'm not sure if they were at that time but I know at this stage they're published by the Revenue quarterly. Anybody with a calculator can figure out what type of proportion of taxes make up such and such. How would the chief economist of the Central Bank of Ireland have to assume these matters back at that time in 2004-2005?