Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The ... so we were operating ... your own quote there, on page 6, "To offset the pro-cyclical effect of low interest rates and easy money would have required running a significant General Government Surplus ...". Was that going beyond any bounds of political feasibility, that the surplus required to have €64 billion ready on 29 September 2008 would have been impossible for any Government to generate?