Mr. John Connaghan:

I will supply one piece of information I was asked for this morning. I undertook to check on Mr. Patrick Lynch's leave arrangements. I did that in two ways. I accessed his annual leave card which had been signed off, as I had thought, by the previous director general. No date is appended to the signature but I further checked with Mr. Lynch as to when he booked his flights, which was on 17 January. I estimate that his leave arrangement was made prior to that date.