Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I would draw Deputy Connolly's attention to figure 3.9 in relation to that particular case. I am satisfied that the body actually handled it well. It got legal advice. It made an assessment as to whether this was the best thing to do. We must finish this situation, as the Secretary General has said. Damage can be done to a body and development does not happen if there is a difficulty with an individual. The specific place where it fell down was that it should have gone to the Department and said: "We have a problem, here is how we are dealing with it, it has been fully considered by the governing body, it understands the principle and we have agreement for the deal and is the Department comfortable with this?" That is the thing it did not do.