Mr. Brian Kealy:

We made the case. We wrote to the managing director of the IAA at the time. A lot of water has gone under the bridge. I looked back over our correspondence files for the past number of years recently. We also acted as co-ordinators for all the students. In the early days, we used legal representation. We collected money from all the student families in order that we could have representation during the examinership and so on but when it is was looking much more difficult, if we had tried to take legal action against the IAA, it would probably have been a High Court hearing and we would have to put up the money up-front. The 60 families would probably have had to put up several thousand euro each with no guarantee of success. The IAA says its responsibility is not to the students.