The Minister said he is not prepared to answer the question of whether the Collector General's Account has been transferred back from the Bank of Ireland to the Central Bank. He maintains it is a separate question. The question in fact is, does the Minister believe that any of the commercial banks benefited financially from the Central Bank strike? If the Bank of Ireland still retain the Collector General's Account surely they are benefiting. I would ask the Minister again to confirm that it has been transferred back and if not why not, when it is now six weeks after the bank strike?

That is a separate question. I have answered the question that the Deputy put down.

We can take it, therefore, that it is still there in the Bank of Ireland, six weeks after the Central Bank strike has ended.

You may not take it that it is still there.