John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to turn now to your time before you were Secretary General, when you were ... I think, immediately prior to it, you were head of ... or responsible for public expenditure division within the Department of Finance in the run-up to 2006, a period when public expenditure increased by almost 44%. In hindsight now, do you believe that you ... or can you express to the inquiry whether you voiced any concerns at that increase in public expenditure or do you think, looking back on it now, that you could have done more to raise those concerns?