Mr. Martin McGuinness:

It is absolutely accurate. I had no knowledge of it whatsoever. The document was sent by Peter Robinson's principal private secretary to Dublin, which was extraordinary given that it is a joint office. From our perspective, we would have required my principal private secretary to be involved in a discussion with Peter Robinson's principal private secretary and a decision then made as to whether we needed to speak to the Departmental Solicitor's Office, bring in economists and so forth, but it never happened. What happened was that Peter Robinson's principal private secretary, on his own bat and obviously on instructions from Mr. Robinson, sent that communication to Dublin. It had no assent from me, my principal private secretary or anybody in my private office. I think the Deputy said that I said that Dara O'Hagan's assessment of this was that it was not important.