Mr. Michael Kirrane:

In my opening statement, I outlined the agencies and Departments that are on the committee. There are agents who operate and seek to represent their clients in obtaining investments. As a committee, it was decided early on that we would not engage and did not want individual members of the committee to engage with agents on this but that it would be done through the secretariat and administrative function in INIS. It was considered that by releasing the names of individual members of the committee, they would be put in a position of being contacted by agents who would invariably want to discuss individual cases that were of interest to them, which we thought was not appropriate. I am happy to say that I chair the committee but beyond that I do not wish to create a situation where individual members of the committee would be contacted about individual cases.