Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

And that kind of brings me into the space of the whole issue of a soft landing and what attempts were made to quantify the effects of a soft landing and what impact this would have on Government finances in terms of loss of revenue and increased expenditure and so forth, and what advice was given to Government on this regard. So maybe if I could ask you to recall, what was the discussion kind of going on from that period afterwards then as to what was the discourse and evidence that was supporting the discourse of a soft landing?