Mr. Terry Allen:

The letter is dated 12 July. I will provide a copy of that letter. The letter sets out the exceptional circumstances, including the fact that weather conditions were unlikely to facilitate more than one dive and the imperative to minimise the risks associated with operating at the extremes that would apply, as well as the business I referenced earlier about photographic evidence and so on. I said that given those exceptional circumstances the Department was agreeable, on a once-off basis, to the recovery proceeding without a prior survey, subject to the other conditions of the licence being observed. That letter issued to Mr. Bemis on 12 July. I note that the letter from the director of the National Museum of Ireland is dated 14 July. That letter refers to the dive having taken place the day before. I gather the dive took place the day after, that is to say, 13 July.