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

Okay, can I maybe reframe that question before I move on to Deputy Phelan. The proposition being put forward by Deputy Doherty, and this committee, is that the information was available then. You're stating, Mr. Patterson, that you may not have been intimately informed of it but are you disputing the proposition that the information was in the ether at the time? It's not something that laterally came onto the table.