Dr. Michael Somers:

In my own case, I have known the Minister for Finance for many years. Sometime after he became Minister, I rang him and said I would like to drop over to talk to him just to explain what I was doing. I spent about an hour or so with him and then he asked me to talk to some of his officials, which I did.

I met him casually on other occasions when I mentioned things to him. He has my telephone number - I have his telephone number - if he wants to ring me about anything. All the papers we see go to the Department of Finance and the Central Bank. There are no secrets and they know we are around if they want to get elaboration on anything.