Mr. Sean Doyle:

The Deputy must remember that we were communicating in the midst of the pandemic so it was impossible to co-ordinate face-to-face communication. We communicated directly through video links and set up briefings. Those were the best means we could enable considering the crisis we were in at the time. If we were not in a pandemic crisis, of course we would have got people together face-to-face but that would have been in breach of HSE guidance at the time. That was the reality of the situation in which we were.