Mr. Dermot Gleeson:

Well, the Minister was a professional colleague of mine and ... I wouldn't have been a close friend but I do regard him as a friend of mine ... At some meeting subsequently, I would think a few months later when we were waiting for someone else to come or maybe when he was saying goodbye to me or if it was just the two of us, I don't remember precisely, but I do remember he said, "You know, on that night, I would've been in favour of taking down those two institutions," or something like that, and there was no more than that. I didn't ask him, he didn't say anymore, and he wasn't complaining, I think he was just affording me an anecdote. I didn't find it surprising that there would've been different views on the night. This was a very difficult decision.