Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not wish to cut across the Minister either, but the fact of the matter is this. If the proposal was serious, it was not a situation in which somebody could go to Tony Holohan, say thought was being given to this proposition, that it might be possible to do it, get him to agree to it and then end up with there being no funding available for it at the end of the day.

He was not going to get involved in that. It would have been an insult to him to produce that kind of an option for him. That is my reading.