Mr. Brian Cowen:

Well, there was going to be clarity provided anyway as soon as we had ... as soon as we had ... we were looking for a bit of final clarity ourselves before committing to applying and then knowing that we were negotiating on the basis that it would get us an outcome that we could find that was doable, as difficult ... and it was going to be very difficult to do it, one way or the other. But clarity was ... it wasn't intent ... it wasn't our intention not to provide clarity, it was the timing of providing it, I suppose, that ... where we fell down.