Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Let us be really clear. I sought to be clear in my opening remarks and I want to be absolutely clear. The term "panel, for want of a better word", is me saying "panel is not the right word". Okay. There were five people involved; three of them had a decision-making and implementation function. The Devine report makes clear that there was not sufficient follow-through on the agreed actions. Having read the report and re-read it in the interval between 10 a.m. on Friday morning and 12 noon on Tuesday, which was the amount of notice I had on that occasion, the view I formed was those were the three I would have had most concerns about. When I asked the question of my staff, "Where are those people?" the assurance I was given was that they were retired. They were retired but that was not the whole story; one of them had been rehired on a part-time basis and that is what I have corrected today.