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

Your particular role focused on communications. So in terms of the bailout and the lead up to the bailout in November 2010, to what extent was the Minister unhappy with the level of public knowledge which emerged? And obviously when Governor Honohan made the phone call to RTE and the IMF arrived in town on, I think, 18 November, the whole thing blew up. But what was the Minister's view? What ... was he trying to, in a sense, maximise the negotiating position of the Government or why was there an element of not telling the public fully about the preliminary negotiations which were going on?