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

I'll ... I'll give you two examples there. It'll come up on the screen at the moment, you say, "when around 2005, ... Alan Barrett had expressed a view in an ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary that the banks were in a rather fragile state, I was instructed to request the Director of the ESRI to ensure that such comments were not published in future". You then go on say, "In the 2007 Financial Stability Report [that we just discussed], a deliberate decision was taken to delete the conclusions of a research study updating the extent of the overvaluation of Irish property services". So, going back to you again, can you provide further information on this as to how the request was made to you and how, how these ... and how did you follow through on the request with regard to these matters?