Chairman:

I will interrupt Ms Mangan for a moment because I do not like where this is going. This document was not produced for no good reason. It may be technical in nature but there is an onus on all of us to understand it. If we do not understand it, we have to find somebody to explain how it works and what it is trying to drive at. It is not an academic exercise that was done to keep the committee happy and then to be parked. The purpose of today's meeting is to challenge and understand the assumptions that were made, the analysis that was carried out and the findings that were reached. That is what this meeting is about. I do not want there to be an argument that the committee made a recommendation and the Citizens Information Board had to do the analysis. The report was undertaken for a purpose, and the purpose of today's meeting is to analyse it, examine its assumptions, understand where it is going and assess whether the committee is satisfied that its recommendations represent the best way to proceed. The outcomes in the report are based on a range of assumptions of which we are quite well aware. We want to know whether they are real, whether this is a report that was done only to be parked and whether we are wasting our time. The committee is of the view that the analysis of this report is important.