Mr. Paschal Hayes:

It is sort of correct. It is not fully correct. My understanding of what happened there was that there was a lot of interaction with the industry on the lead up to the control plan being agreed last December.

On 9 December, in the lead up to the control plan being agreed last December, there was a meeting between the industry and the SFPA where it was pointed out that one of the conditions that the Commission was insisting on was that the weighing device would be non-industry owned and non-industry operated. On 4 February, there was a further meeting with the catching side of the industry where options for the ownership model of the weighing device were discussion. On 11 February, there was a follow-up meeting, from the catching side of the industry, with a lease proposal in terms of leasing the machine. On 21 February, there was a further meeting with the processing side of the sector where they informed the SFPA that the catching side of the sector had no authority to enter into any lease arrangement, and that any such offer was withdrawn.