Mr. Fintan Drury:

I believe it is perfectly appropriate for ... in a situation like that. I believe today, it is perfectly appropriate in a situation like that for ... if there was a chief executive or a chairman of one of the financial institutions today and he needed or felt he needed to speak promptly with the Minister for Finance and he knew that one member of his board was close to the Minister for Finance and he rang the member in question and said, "Would you see if Michael Noonan will take a call from me?", and if Michael Noonan said,"I need to talk to the Governor of the Central Bank and I will come back to you", and he did what Brian Cowen did, I would have thought as a citizen of this State, that was perfectly and utterly appropriate.