Mr. John Murphy:

The answer to the second question is no, we never discussed these investigations at the management board because of the sensitivity of the issues. That would have been the practice of my predecessors as well. If there were any discussions, they would have involved the assistant secretary, Ms Breda Power, and myself, or with the Minister as appropriate, but not with the management board or generally.

We did not decide to bring anybody back from retirement to deal with this, although we did in some other areas that were particularly relevant to the EU Presidency.