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

Okay. In his evidence to the inquiry, Kevin Cardiff, the former Secretary General of the Department of Finance said:

The big question in the public domain in relation to the bailout seems to be whether entering the EU-IMF programme was a free choice or were we pushed. Well, at the moment we entered it we were pushed quite hard [he said].

Have you any comment to make on that?