Mr. Charlie McCreevy:

Yes the EMC. But that has been the way that it was always done in my time and, might I say, it was done in the previous Government as well. There may ... on account of the previous Government was a three-party Government, if I remember correctly, I'm sure there had to be more liaison between, say, the three parties with their programme managers in all these areas. But with us it was ourselves and the Progressive Democrats and it was done between the Taoiseach, Tánaiste on taxation matters. So all the Government at various stages was along. Now there were people who perhaps post all of that over the years sought maybe to give the impression that some changes, maybe taxation and some spending measures, were done without other Ministers knowing. That was not correct.