Mr. Mark Griffin:

I said in my opening statement, and in some of my earlier responses, that this was a very significant opportunity to do something that would have made it clear what the nature of the revised project was.

It would have allowed us the opportunity to approach SEUPB with regard to a redefinition of the project, to have sought a revised letter of offer, to have secured an additional element for the project which would have been very beneficial to the north west of Ireland and to have reset the project costs, which would have led to a situation whereby the project promoter would not have been over compensated for work that was not done.

My own sense of it is that there was an urgency on the part of my own Department and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation to get a resolution to the difficulties that were posed by the project being changed by virtue of Aurora's withdrawal and to make sure that the original objectives of the project were achieved. Not enough attention was paid to the fact that from a governance and administrative point of view, the changes that arose would absolutely have required a change to the letter of offer. That cannot-----