Dr. Olive Braiden:

The first thing we thought was that a candidate coming from abroad should not in any way suffer because of having to travel to Ireland. In the case where they were not relocating their family and children to Ireland, we believed it was fair and important that they visit their family as often as they could, possibly every weekend. We wanted to ensure that they did not suffer because of that. If a candidate was in Ireland, they would have been living in Ireland and would be better off. That was our first thought. We wanted to enable the director to travel to visit his family every weekend if possible.