Mr. Michael Howard:

I thank the Chair. At the suggestion of one of the Deputies during the break, I want to make it clear that if some of my answers seemed a little unprepared, it is because I was only invited on Friday afternoon and I was brought it yesterday to read the papers. I want to express my appreciation to the staff who were here. In normal times I would have had more time to prepare, reflect and check up on records. I wanted to put that on the record. Arising from that, I want to say that in the course of this evening's session, something has occurred to me. I am going to be suggesting to Mr. Nugent to look for a letter that I wrote at the end of October as chair of the audit committee to the Commissioner in respect of the failure to brief and adequately inform the audit committee about these matters.