Mr. Charlie McCreevy:

Well, these ... these ... I'm sure I was bombarded by everybody including Deputies probably from your own party but at the time, anyway, I was always very conscious of the fact that people who had committed themselves to various schemes or whatever and the deadlines were coming up, is that we had to have reasonable transitional arrangements. Furthermore, I would always ... I would take the view that if you don't make strong announcements as we're going to close these down sometime, then you keep extending and extending-----