Mr. Terence Ahern:

The four elected members of the 1951 pension committee, who represent the membership as the beneficial owners of the pension scheme, sought funding for independent legal advice before the first committee meeting. Not least because the committee agenda includes the revised funding proposals 2017, given that we already have serious questions about the 2013 funding proposal that was submitted without the agreement of the TUG, and so great were our concerns that we felt it was incumbent on us to get legal advice before we went into that first meeting.