Mr. Brian Cowen:

I don't know because it really depends on the mentality of those who want to think up golden circles. It was a ... basically, that was a publicised event by people who were raising funds to help me with defraying constituency expenses and the fact that I had ... down on my own constituency. It was totally open and above board and declared and submitted as is required under the regulations. When that query was raised about it I answered it. I received no request from any of those individuals in respect of any decisions I ever made in, in any area of activity I was involved in.