Mr. Fintan Drury:

Because, quite clearly, those executives are in a situation where the narrative that suits them, or suits their interests, or suits their particular view on what happened or how they would want what happened to have ... to be presented, and to be accepted ... they would want to create an impression whereby I had behaved in a manner which I have said to you and your colleagues, would have been inappropriate. And I would like to raise one other point here, even though I've made it before, because I think this is important. I work in part of my life in professional football. And it is often referred to as how corrupt the sport is and the extent to which agents, who represent footballers, are corrupt. And yet the very notion that a corrupt deal can be done by one party, one person sitting on one side of the table ... so let's imagine for a moment, Deputy, that I was prepared to go in and sit down with Brian Cowen and beat him up metaphorically to get him to act in a particular way in respect of Anglo Irish Bank, Paddy Power, Mainstream Renewable Power, I don't believe there are many people sitting in this room who believe that Brian Cowen ... that that conversation would have been a lengthy conversation.