Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Finally, during the period from when you took over, what was your sense of the performance of the Taoiseach and the Minister of Finance? For example, was it assured, confident, in control or did you have a sense that it was incoherent and disorganised? Indeed can I just put a second point to that; what was the impression of your colleagues in the ECB and around the meetings over there, of the performance of those same two gentlemen and their Government?