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

Yes, I mean, I read accounts of that in the newspapers but the accounts were contradictory. One said quite bluntly that I don't use metaphors, you know, with those ... that kind of imagery or words to that effect and the other one was that he didn't use the words at all. So I'm not too sure what was said to Deputy Eoghan Murphy but I can assure this committee he said it. He didn't use the "E" word - economic. He said a bomb will go off, a bomb will go off. He didn't qualify it.