Mr. Brian Patterson:

I met ... with the chief executive I met the Minister probably around twice a year, largely, I think, almost totally at our request and the purpose of that was, less to kind of report to the Minister, in some sort of supervisory capacity; it was more to keep the Minister informed with, for example, EU developments, directives and so on. And also, a recurring theme at the time was to ask the Government to strengthen the legislation in relation to credit unions which we were worried about at the time, something, incidentally, the Government was reluctant to do.