Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Okay. As I said earlier to you I don't expect you, and I don't think the committee is expecting you, to be an expert on finance but you would have been privy to discussions and you would have formed the presentation of a lot of matters that the Minister would have presented to the public. From your own observations of discussions and your own involvement with the Minister, were you aware of any concerns with regard to the structure or design of the banking guarantee, along with its period of duration, having any Irish ... or bearing on the Irish State entering a bailout two years and two months after the banking guarantee? Was there discussions?