Ms Lois West:

I would not be sure. We were not there when the senior executive was briefed so we are not quite sure. We had always been seeking a full and independent review. Maybe there was a lack of clarity about what exactly we meant by that but it was always our view that just going back to the original district officer or the person in charge of an investigation was not satisfactory and some questions we raised would not be answered through that process. At that stage, our focus was very much on the classification of the incidents and trying to come to a consensus position. When we came into this, we were not reticent about raising the issues but we might have been lacking a bit of confidence. One always has that fear about whether one is right. We wanted some verification and that was the point of asking to work with others to try to come to that consensus view about whether or not there was an issue here. We were pretty confident there was an issue but we did not want to overstate the issue until we were sure that our feelings were correct.