Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

He would have given evidence here that, despite his proximity to the bosses and the board and the 7th floor - indeed, he met personnel, he told us, regularly at the water fountain there - he had extreme difficulty in getting his message across to the board on the basis of what he called the political and property vested interests within that board. Is that your experience of having talked with him, bearing in mind your own view that economists aren't for hiding behind the door in terms of making their views known?