Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

So you're talking there about the fiscal adjustment and how it was implemented but were they not matters for the Irish Government of the day to decide rather than the Commission or the troika ... the detailed elements of the programme and how to arrive at the target deficits? So, in terms of social protection expenditure and so forth, they weren’t matters for the Commission, surely.