Mr. Brian Cowen:

I don't know was I directly aware from them but, obviously, I was being assured that everything they could do was being done to make sure that liquidity issues were dealt with within the system as a whole and that if people could help out in what was a ... what was seen as a more temporary difficulty, then that level of co-operation that mightn't have been there in the normal competitive position should be considered by ... and that the authorities were ... you know, thought that that would be a good thing to be doing.