Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Noonan, no less than four Government Ministers said to Mr. Leahy for his book that their understanding was, I'll quote one of them:

The understanding was that Noonan would burn them. That's the understanding we had.

And that was corroborated by three other Government Ministers. They didn't think that it was qualified in that way.