Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Yes, the decision was made by the HSE and it was made, as outlined in my opening statement, by the fact that the Resilience Ireland report was nearing its conclusion and that knowledge that the Garda investigations were at an advanced stage. Also, we were finding ourselves in a particular difficulty in being able to provide full answers in regard to inquiries made of us by the Joint Committee on Health at that time.

At that point, we decided that it would be appropriate to push on and proceed to publication-----