Mr. Derek Quinlan:

Well, Deputy, what happened at the time was that somebody who we would have been friendly with would have rung, and this was typical across most of the political parties of the time and said, "We are having a golf outing." And this would be your friend, because I personally only knew one or two politicians at that time. And know them on a very casual basis. So I would say there was no politician a friend of mine. But these would be people who worked on a voluntary basis for Fine Gael or whoever and rang up and said, "We're having a golf outing we'd like you to put in a team." And that's the basis we did it. We didn't look for any political favours, good bad or indifferent.