Mr. Robert Watt:

As I said, the Minister was aware of the details, the broad outline of it. The proposal would have been that the letter of intent was signed and then we would finalise the agreement subsequently. So at that stage. What happened, and I have not gone into this in public, and I did not talk about it previously but I will now. What happened actually was that, the Minister knew about the research proposal in generality. He knew about the secondment. There was a note, and I must be careful about what I say here, Deputy, for reasons which, Chair, I will explain to you.