Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Thanks very much. I think Deputy Doherty has covered most of the specific questions that we'd agreed to ask. Just to follow on slightly from the soft landing, was there ever a forum internally where assistant secretaries, senior principal officers would sit down and say, "Okay, the consensus from the IMF and the ESRI and the OECD and various other people and the data and, indeed, our own individual units, is that we are going to have a soft landing."? So, was there a forum that that was discussed at ... that you can recall where it was decided, "Yes, that is the likely outcome so, therefore, that's the position"?