Mr. John Corrigan:

I think there was a meeting on the Wednesday of the previous week which the Taoiseach was at and the Minister for Finance and I was certainly at that meeting, and all the options were tabled at that meeting. And we would have indicated, to the best of my recollection, that we would have favoured the nationalisation route. Now, I was out on the Thursday and Friday. Again, I had no sense of ... I ... at the risk of delaying the committee, I was due to travel to Germany to meet my grandchildren on the Wednesday and I postponed my visit because of the meeting with the Taoiseach and I headed off on Thursday and I think I came back on Saturday and I went off to New York for a meeting in connection with the pension fund on Monday. So I had no sense of impending doom, if "doom" is the word that can be, sort of, attached to the, sort of, circumstances at the time.