Mr. Brian Cowen:

-----issues would be dealt with in the Department of Finance. Now, I just want to make one thing clear, Deputy, if you're making the point that ... and I just made this point last week and I make it again. You know, the fact that I had contact with Mr. FitzPatrick in those settings, as you say, doesn't mean anything in terms of ... had no influence whatever in what I was trying to do as Taoiseach of this country on the night in question.