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

I just need you to ... to clarify that with you. Is it that this was a mirroring and a re-echoing of ... it's like somebody going ... if I was heading to the doctor this morning and somebody says, "You're all right, you don't have to go to the doctor." And I go up to the doctor and I says, "Well, I don't need to be here this morning, because somebody said I'm all right on my way down." That's external advice. What I'm trying to find out here is that the Department of Finance would be the nation's doctor in terms of its finances. Were you carrying out your own diagnostics or were you taking second-hand information and making a diagnosis on that?