Mr. Charlie McCreevy:

I think I would have read the ... most commentary that was about the Irish economy during my time in Finance or someone having read it for me and they gave me a summary of it. I spent an awful number of hours per day in the Department of Finance and that's what I did a lot of the time, so therefore I certainly did take account and read what these commentators had to say. But as I said, in my opening Budget Statement, I then, we then decided and I recommended to the Government we do certain things, sometimes we did something that they were in agreement with, sometimes we didn't, but that's, as I said, what we do always with advice.