Mr. Michael Horgan:

I am personally sorry Dr. Love is leaving. He knows, I have written to him about it. One would expect some tension between the board and the chairman, and the chief executive and the executive. That kind of tension is in the board and within the HEA. It is a good thing to have a bit of healthy tension. Dr. Love is right that the combination of issues that are within our power to address, not within our power to address and over which there is a question mark made him the meat in the sandwich between the Department looking for something and us asking for something that was probably slightly different. This caused a lot of stress and pressure for him. It is the kind of thing that happens all the time between the board and chief executive in organisations. In Dr. Love's view, it was one of the issues he felt added to all the other things that led him to make his personal decision to leave.