Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I respect that. I am not trying to get the deputy First Minister to sour relationships that are sensitive for the whole island. There are probably members of BBC Northern Ireland who are looking at what he is saying today and trying to latch on to everything that he says.

The deputy First Minister praised Deputy Mick Wallace in his statement earlier for the information that he put in the public domain. The deputy First Minister stated that he was at a remove from the process, that it was Peter Robinson and Sammy Wilson, and that he relied on them for information as well. From correspondence issued by PIMCO to this committee it is clear, according to PIMCO, that the Northern Ireland Government had a preferred bidder in PIMCO. Given the fact that Sammy Wilson apparently had a preferred bidder in mind, as did the Northern Ireland Government, and that there were bad relations between the deputy First Minister and the First Minister at the time over Long Kesh, does the deputy First Minister in hindsight believe he was sidelined not so much to do with people being at odds with him but purposely kept him at arm's length?