Mr. Marco Buti:

No ... I don't ... I can ... I do not accept the characterisation of us manoeuvring Ireland into a programme. I think this ... there was an honest, fair, prudent assessment of the state of the situation of the Irish economy and the Irish financial system and the Irish public finances and what was needed at the time. I think we supported very strongly the national recovery plan that the Irish Government had put in place and were elaborating at the time. I think we had good advice on that, as always we do in a ... you know, sharing sovereignty situation as we have in the EU. And that was the ... but we did not, you know, manoeuvre or, let's say, push or threaten anybody.