Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Just to clarify, when you got to your feet in the first week of December to present the budget - that June budget strategy memo - did that still represent the official advice from the Department, despite all the jockeying that had happened in between June and December? Was that still the most current advice, as such, from the Department as to how to frame the budget for the following year?