Professor Patrick Honohan:

The ECB, yes - no, the ECB and the troika. I mean, there was a meeting with Brian Lenihan and I don't know who else was there, Kevin Cardiff and his Department of Finance staff. I just wondered why did they feel that I would be in an awkward position since ... but I wouldn't have been in an awkward position because they knew which side of the table I was on, on the Irish side all of the time. However, I knew fairly quickly afterward but it was a bit odd, I thought, when we had discussed as the Department of Finance, NTMA and Central Bank all along.