Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Just very finally, on page 8 of your witness statement, Mr. Gormley, under the heading of the "3rd quarter[of] 2010", you refer to asking the Taoiseach to bring in the leaders of the Opposition in the Dáil to explain the situation and to seek a form of national co-operation as to how we could manage our way through this period. Can you clarify when that was? Was that October, November 2010, prior to the bailout negotiations? And, then you say that that did happen, that there was a meeting. You might clarify who attended that.

But then you say, presumably referring to the Opposition, "refused to enter any collaborative arrangement to manage the considerable risks that face the country." So can you clarify what was considered at that time? Was it kind of a Tallaght strategy-----