Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. You talk in your statement about the role of advisers in analysing the crisis and you talk about how they were hampered in their analysis of the crisis by "were hampered in their analysis of the crisis by their unswerving belief that our banks were fundamentally sound and their failure to consider the possibility that their (sic) [may] be a crash rather than a soft landing in the Irish property market." Sorry, but your job was to write speeches for the Minister. Did you partake in any of the briefings to understand what was meant by a soft landing as to help to convey this message to the general public?