Mr. Fintan Drury:

As I explained in my opening statement, Deputy, I ... it fell to me to see whether Brian Cowen would be prepared to attend what initially was going to be a lunch in the manner in which other public servant ... public servants and senior politician ... political figures had over the ten years or so, as I have explained in my statement. And, because I was known to be a friend of his, I approached him and asked him if he would do it. It was then the ... the organisation of the dinner would have been managed by other people within the bank.