Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I will get the full explanation from the Department of Finance and will supply it to the Deputy in public in case there is any suggestion that I did something untoward or at someone's behest. I did nothing at anyone's behest; I did it on the basis of official advice on a matter which was having an effect on the trading of shares. That is my general recollection of 2006 but I will get the details and supply them. There is no mystery to this.

On the question of obtaining names, I have made the point — others can say differently if they wish — that the matter is currently being investigated by the Office of Corporate Enforcement and the regulator. It relates to a commercial deal done internally in a bank between the bank and its customers or investors. I do not have the details of that transaction. The independent statutory authority, acting independently, is dealing with that. If I went down to Fitzgibbon Street in the morning——

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