Ms Carolan Lennon:

The Department was looking to address some of them while it pushed back on others. For example, on the registration pricing and our worry that if we set a price over here, it would end up our de factoprice over there. That is a real issue for us with a business that is all over the country and an equivalence requirement. The Department will state that this will be okay but we cannot take it that it will be okay because we are regulated, as are our prices. There were some areas where the Department did not accept our issue and we believed it was an issue because we are regulated and know how the rules work while there were other areas where the Department engaged on them. We went for it in terms of the ISDS submission. We did an awful lot of work and produced a large submission. We hoped that would show how serious we were about the bid in terms of the effort. We hoped for changes after that. That went in in September and the contract came out in January. That was when we realised that nothing was going to change because there had only been very small marginal changes in the contract and none of the major issues had been addressed. Up to then, we were probably hopeful that we might make some progress. We kept making our arguments, kept pushing and put in a very good submission but it was obvious in January that we were not going to get traction on those issues. At that time, the tender was meant to be awarded in April. If we could not get traction in 18 months, we were not going to get in three months. That was when we decided to-----