Ms Cathy Herbert:

I don't think that there were ... the speeches that ... that I was involved in and that the Minister was giving at the time were really to do with our economic position. He was very concerned about the public finance position ... the position of the public finances, the need to, you know, to take steps ... the steps that he had to take he had a budgetary ... there was a budgetary adjustment brought in in July and the work related to that, it was really about public finances, really ... that was ... my issue. He did ... he did ... he did say himself at a meeting - some conference in Dublin Castle - that, you know, he had had the misfortune to be appointed Minister as ... at the time when the ... so I think he was aware of what was happening in the property market.