Mr. Charlie McCreevy:

Yes, I want to clear ... be clear about this anyway, and whether we did at the end of the Cabinet meeting or what, but this is how we did it.

So, therefore, I'm not breaking the Cabinet confidentiality about this, and that's what we did. And two officials of my Department of Finance individually went over that two-month period and got all the lists of one thing and another, kept it totally within themselves and the Department of Finance, went straight to Department ... no Department knew we were talking to anybody else and this is how it was done. And then, the night before, the secretary started ringing other Secretaries General and assistant secretaries ... I'm not saying some Ministers-----