Mr. Chris Reynolds:

As Mr. Mullen said, the first draft of the report was a draft report. It was not a case of quod scripsi scripsi. It was a draft report which they called the challenge report. When they produced a draft report, they were unaware of a lot of information. They were unaware of how a Government Department was structured internally. Many things in their report were factually incorrect and when all these matters were made clear to them, they produced the second and third drafts. The issue here, as Mr. Mullen rightly stated, is that it was a draft report and a challenge to us to respond and justify. My biggest concern with the draft report was not those comments but that they were looking to cut the volunteer service in half, close 20 teams, remove all the boats and more or less remove all the cliff climbing equipment. These were the issues at which I took umbrage, not the personalised issues.