Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

You mentioned several times in your evidence about the ... the view that we were being bounced into a programme or that there was significant briefing going on from European sources to facilitate our entry into a programme. Do you feel that Governor Honohan was, either unwillingly or willingly, part of this strategy in terms of masters or senior colleagues at the European Council of the ECB, who presumably would have met the night before? Do you feel it's potential exists that Governor Honohan was told, or suggested in very strong terms, "You should get yourself on the national radio and get this out there because" ... you know?