Professor Frances Ruane:

As chair of the Abbey I will attend on Friday, as will Ms Sarah Durcan, who is one of the directors, and Mr. Neil Murray. We have arranged that because the most productive step is to get that first meeting going. We have a relatively small board, many members of which do not live in Dublin and cannot attend on a Friday evening for this discussion. With respect to everybody we felt it best to give those directors time to see at what point they would engage and which parts of this discussion it would be most appropriate for them to engage with. Maybe this impression has incorrectly been created, but no disrespect at all is intended to the group by our sending the chair, Ms Sarah Durcan and a director. Mr. McLaren is out of Ireland on Friday and cannot be there.