Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

----- that his contacts with senior Anglo Irish Bank personnel were more intimate and more extensive than he had previously shared. I must ask him some straight and simple questions on that. First, why did it take a question from me in the course of Leaders' Questions - only the second opportunity open to us under Leaders' Questions as a Technical Group - for the Taoiseach to proffer the information that it was not only a golf outing with Seán FitzPatrick and Fintan Drury, but that he was also meeting that evening with Gary McGann and Alan Gray, a director of the Central Bank and a member of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority, whom the Taoiseach had appointed when Minister for Finance in January 2007? Why did the Taoiseach not offer that information previously? Why, up to the conclusion of the second question here -----

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