Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We were ... we were looking for a statement of support and we got it at the end of the day, but my memory of it is that it was the format of the statement that was at issue rather than no statement at all. I mean, you could have a statement like we got after 18 months of dealing with the promissory note - "we note the decision of the Irish Central Bank" - which hardly did justice to what had happened in between. So, it ... I, I don't recall that they ever threatened to withhold a statement.