Susan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Okay ... when I think ... Deputy O'Donnell has already quoted this. On page 7 of your own statement, ''The Department had concluded that reliance on construction was becoming one of the biggest risks to economic development especially where some external shock might interact with and affect the construction sector." Now we heard from Tom Considine yesterday, who took some pains to explain how you can advise and Governments decide. So, if you were giving that advice - and you've said in your response that you were - that the Department rather was giving that advice, if you see that some of your advice is not sticking or is not being taken or is being taken in a way that isn't just quite what you thought, what were you doing then to, sort of, correct or to re-correct or to try to go, "Okay, well, if they haven't taken that advice, what are we going to do now?" Or do you just sit back and go, I'm exaggerating slightly, but do you sit back and go, "Well, they haven't taken our advice this time." How do you keep fighting that fight or did you give up? Did the Department give up and go away?