Mr. Brian Conlan:

If I have done anything wrong, I will certainly apologise. In all of my eight years as a member of the board, coinciding with my eight years as chief executive officer of the Mater hospital, I did my level best to spread myself as much as I could to attend board meetings and to play the role I was supposed to play. I was not privy to Mr. Kiely’s pension settlement. That is the truth. I was not part and parcel of the remuneration committee that negotiated this. If there was anything I did that was wrong, I do apologise.