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

A general assumption that could be made of that period of time was the soft landing theory. And the soft landing theory has ... seemed to have influenced a lot of political strategy, a lot of political thinking, a lot of political manifestos and so forth. This committee has asked previous finance Ministers and Taoiseachs and general secretaries ... sorry ... the senior civil servants in the Department of Finance and so forth, as to ... was there an internal document in the Department of Finance that was evidentially designed and put together by them to support that. Now, that will continue to be a work in progress. Did you at any time ever contact the Department of Finance to seek documentation, or were you ever provided with information that was belonging to the Department of Finance that actually supported a soft landing theory.