Dr. Cecil Beamish:

For the benefit of the committee, may I outline the sequence? It was not a case of just an Ombudsman's report and then nothing happened. There was a very full and thorough examination of this issue by the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Like issues that have been spoken about before, there is a long history but there was a very lengthy examination of it by the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. There was a very large transcript of the evidence and information from all the officials going back to the time when the events happened in 1981 or 1982 and a scheme that was run in 1990 to the committee. That committee came to its own conclusion.