Mr. Bertie Ahern:

No, I'm certainly not. I don't think the outcome, unfortunately, would have been maybe no better and Brian Cowen did a very good job and Brian Lenihan, in my view. The point I was making ... but, you know, I knew these people very well and I knew the Europeans very well. I knew them personally. I think it would have been easier on my colleagues I knew ... Jean-Claude Trichet from the 1991-1992 currency crisis, when he was head of ... monetary section of the French department of finance. Jean-Claude Juncker was head of the Eurogroup. I had been Minister for Labour with him, Minister for Finance with him and Taoiseach and Prime Minister with him. So I would have been, you know, personally very, very friendly with these people.