Mr. Brian Cowen:

No, there wasn't a hand-over meeting, that didn't take place. I did ... I recall saying to the Taoiseach on my last day in the Dáil when he ... when we shook hands and I said that if he were the next Taoiseach, which was looking likely, that I wished him well and that we needed to complete the job that we'd begun. And I was under no illusions that it wasn't likely that we were going to be back in power. But, I certainly hoped that there would be a consistent follow-through with the policies that I believed were necessary and this Government has, in the main, obviously continued that path to public finances-----