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

Okay. I had one or two other questions but Senator MacSharry actually took them for me, so I'll actually move on to the next ones. The issue of ... finally, is the issue of the soft landing and the general political consensus that could be proposed or suggested that everyone was very much in a groupthink, both Government and Opposition ... that everybody ... that, okay, there was going to be a turndown, but it was going to be a soft landing in ... and I know, as Minister for Finance, that you would have access to Finance ... to senior Finance officials. that would be a common practice in opposition during that time in ... and any Opposition spokesperson would have access to the general secretary of a given Department. This committee has yet to establish whether there was any evidence of a soft landing within the Department of Finance. Did you ever test that evidence - to go and see if that was there?