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

But you see, that question, if I say yes or no suggests that there were people making representations on my behalf. You know, I don't believe there were. So I don't know what the basis of it is, and I can't inquire because if I inquire I'm contravening the inquiry that is now put in place under Judge Cregan. I can't go around the Department asking officials "Were you the person referred to by Mike Aynsley?" because if I do that ... so I'm in a position where I don't know what the basis of that was. As presented by Mr. Aynsley, it was an e-mail from somebody who was an employee of IBRC that were recounting to him a conversation with an unnamed official in Finance, who he said gave a view on what the Minister's attitude would be to a hypothetical situation which wasn't a real case but which might happen in the future. Now how can I deal with that?