Mr. Maurice Quinn:

We had dispatched the jet for its normal anticipated service to the Gulfstream facility in Savannah, Georgia. What Gulfstream does there is strip the jet down quite considerably in order to conduct all of the maintenance necessary. In effect, the jet was spread out on the workshop floor. Only at that time when the jet was in that stripped-down state was the further work that was required identified. We had an ongoing conversation with Gulfstream about the likely cost arising from that. We bottomed out on the extra cost that it was going to be.

We then had a situation in which we had contracted quite considerable costs with Gulfstream. Those costs were potentially going to continue to accrue. We then put together the case and received the decision from the Minister that no further costs were to be incurred. We then dispatched a team over to Savannah to discuss and negotiate this with Gulfstream. The team succeeded in limiting the costs that were accruing to us to around €73,000, which was a very good piece of work. It gave us the space to work out very quickly what the best option for the disposal of the jet was. Once the decision was taken that no further money was going to be spent on it, the next question was what were the most effective means to dispose of the jet.