John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I want to ask you now, Mr. Cowen, if you ... in your opinion, did the Department of Finance have the necessary expertise to produce its own economic forecasting reports and if so, did you give equal weight to internally-produced reports and externally-produced reports from sources like the ESRI and the IMF and the OECD in your time as Minister?