Dr. Donal Donovan:

When we write reports, we hope people will read them carefully line by line and, therefore, considerable effort goes into ensuring that what is reported is done in a precise, careful and balanced way because these are sensitive issues. Coming here affords us the opportunity to speak a little more freely. I might need to be careful of some things I might have mentioned in passing. I would not necessarily want to see it reported that the fiscal council suggests that 4 a.m. is not a good time to have meetings as people might go away confused. I said that and I believe it, but it is different from having it written down in a report that is circulated. I hope the Vice Chairman will indulge a certain amount of our being able to speak a little more freely and expressively with perhaps more of a personal element when we come here because we gain much from hearing the committee's views and I hope it is useful for the members of the committee. That is a slightly different forum from a very carefully written crafted report. Perhaps we craft them too carefully, a point we will certainly consider. We may be too nuanced and not so blunt. However, we need to be careful.