Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

The WRC set aside an amount of days that might have been required for the talks in July. The amount of discussion that we required took place over two days at which point all parties agreed that it was time to take stock and to reconsider the issues so that we could come back again in October. That is not surprising. It has taken a very long time to get into face-to-face discussions. Obviously, Covid restricted us in doing that. We needed to build better understandings on both sides of what the issues were. There might have been a hope that they could have gone into Croke Park for three days to seal and deliver a deal. I am not sure that was ever possible.