Mr. Terry Allen:

No, absolutely not, a Chathaoirligh. A one-off decision was made in this case to allow this artefact to be recovered because of the particular circumstances that I have outlined. I gather the Chairman is referencing a letter from the director of the National Museum of Ireland to me. He indicates in the letter that the telegraph went back down. He said that this was the consequence of permitting such work to be undertaken without the appropriate archaeological methodology in place. I wish to point out that the telegraph was brought up in the same way as previous recoveries had been effected. It was an equipment failure that caused it to go back down again. It was nothing to do with the methodology or the presence or otherwise of an archaeologist. The bag burst and it went back down.