Mr. John Barrett:

A five minute meeting. I saw it - and I described it in my note - as an inflection point. I did so because in the room there was a very real discussion. I had provided Mr. Dunne with the report, dated 6 July, which deals with 21 items. It had the quantum in there of the amount of money. In the very first box I make the point quite clearly, based on some certain experience, that I felt, as a consequence of these matters, that the accounts of An Garda Síochána were compromised. That is how I would have viewed it if I was looking at a due diligence exercise in the private sector and I do not think the Comptroller and Auditor General would disagree with me.