Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay, can I ask you in relation to going back, unfortunately, to the issue on Druids Glen and you talk about your conflict in terms of the privacy that you've had and the confidentiality that you've kept in relation to clients or people that you've provided advice to and the fact that you felt that you needed to make a public statement to bring clarity to the public in this matter? Can I ask you in relation to the public statement that you include here to The Irish Timeswhere you say you were invited to attend an informal dinner with the Taoiseach in Druids Glen; "The purpose of the invitation was to provide independent ideas [and] stimulate economic growth and to reduce unemployment in Ireland"? Could people suggest that that was misleading in the way that you weren't invited to a dinner in Druids Glen to discuss unemployment and the economic growth in Ireland until you actually were invited to a private meeting in a private residence of a former director of Anglo Irish Bank and, when that meeting hadn't concluded, you were asked to attend a dinner?