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

Thank you very much, Senator, and I want to bring matters to a conclusion, if I can. And if I can put a question to yourself, Minister Bruton. Very simply, as Opposition spokesperson for finance, what level of contact did you have yourself with the banking sector during the growing crisis years, including that of the IFSC? During that period of time, were you subjected to lobbying by interest groups or what meetings would you have had with those groups or sought from them and how did you devise what you considered to be appropriate policies for that sector? And I've one or two supplementary questions on that and I'll take that as the general first, Mr. Bruton.