Mr. Michael Howard:

No. He would have assured me that he was genuinely very sorry. I should explain in terms of the sequence of who served, the chief administrative officer left in December. Assistant Commissioner Ó Cualáin took up office towards the end of 2015 so he would not have been involved in the initial briefing of the committee. The Deputy asked me what I said to him. I would have urged upon him the need to deal with this urgently and the view that I had taken it very seriously. Mr. Kelly and I had talked about notifying the Comptroller and Auditor General. To be fair to Mr. Kelly, I offered to make the first call-----