Ms Fidelma Clarke:

I'm not sure I'm qualified to talk about that not having been a member of either the executive or the board at the time. I know ... I heard Ms Tinney earlier say that she felt that his skills would have been useful to the society and certainly we heard from, I think, Mr. Merriman today to say that his preference would have been to stay. I think the overriding consideration was as a mutual, EBS wanted to demonstrate accountability to members first and foremost and it took the decision to put that consideration above other considerations.