Mr. David Doyle:

There were drafts of legislation that had been prepared by the Department with the agreement of the Minister, with the input from the Attorney General, not physically in that building but they were in the Department of Finance across the square. There was a team ready on the night to finalise a Bill for nationalisation of ... there would be different versions, for a bank, a building society, and there was stand-by arrangements for a bank guarantee also. So that legislation was on stock waiting for political direction.