Mr. Kevin Cardiff:

I'm sure that's true, Deputy, I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that until the point when you sent me an instruction saying, "Please turn up on such and such and please send this statement", I had no instructions whatsoever as to what the committee wanted from me. But it would not be possible for me to give the evidence I'm giving today if I hadn't started my preparation long before Christmas, so I have been preparing on spec all along.

Indeed, when you finally give us instruction you say, "Cover 23 lines of inquiry and, by the way, also we'll ask you questions about anything else the inquiry is dealing with and anything any other witness says." So, really, you get very little instruction as to what you want from me. I have done my best and I think I'm doing okay in terms of information flow at least. So, I'm a bit ... I find the question a bit strange, Deputy, that's all I'm saying.