Mr. Robert Watt:

-----given the circumstances but, obviously, with the benefit of hindsight, we should have done it differently and socialised it differently. We were conscious to do it in an appropriate fashion. At various stages when the conversations were taking place the disease was still circulating and we did not want it to be leaked that the CMO was thinking about moving on. We did not think that would be good, so we tried to manage it in a sensible way, given the challenges we faced and that, ultimately, this is a personnel matter in the Department. Notwithstanding the profile of the CMO, it is a personnel matter.