Mr. Charlie McCreevy:

No and certainly not. I actually ... I think it is common knowledge that developers are close both ... to the major political parties. That's very obvious. Like, the major political parties, until the recent election, represented maybe upwards of 75% to 80% of the electorate since more or less 1930. So, therefore, it would be expected that developers and the builders would come from that large constituency from both parties. I personally am not close to any of the builders. I know lots of builders and know lots of tradesmen and I know lots of accountants, I know lots of punters, I know lots of other kinds of people. I know lots of politicians, or I used to in any event.

And in regarding the Galway tent, I find the whole thing about the Galway tent a bit disingenuous and I think so ... I've always thought so about through the years. It was a big social event, right. There were not just builders in the Galway tent. In fact, I didn't attend that often because I found it a terrible pain in the backside because I'm a punter and people know I am a punter and like a bet and I used to have to put in my time and decide one day to go into this bloody tent. And most of the people ... what ... the biggest thing I remember of the Galway tent was, if people want to know ... was one thing anyway, you would be inundated for about three weeks previously, or my office would be, with loads of journalists wanting a freebie into the Galway tent in order to get plenty of drink and food. That's the more thing I remember about it and that definitely was a pain in the backside to me as well.