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

Okay. And was any consideration given over the course of the evening to making contact with the ECB and making the point to them, "We're about to make a major decision about our banking system, the scale of which is potentially beyond the capacity of this State and we're putting it to you, finally, are you prepared to make any intervention to assist?" Was any consideration given to making that call to Frankfurt, even on that very evening?