Mr. Cormac McCarthy:

It's not unusual, you know, in trying to run a meeting to a certain time period, if a matter becomes, you know, either detailed or complex, it's not unusual for there to be an agreement either to have, you know, in some cases either a sub-committee meeting or for a board member who has a particular interest to go and inform themselves about something outside the meeting. That would be quite normal and then it would be normal if that board member had further concerns to come back to the board and say to the chairman "I met with X, I was either satisfied or not satisfied". The absence of any minute to the effect would seem to indicate that there would be satisfaction and that has been the case with this particular point having been raised by Professor Brennan.