Mr. Robert Watt:

I have said previously and am happy to say that I regret the way it was communicated and the way it panned out. In terms of my role, yes, absolutely, we should have done it better and I accept that we should have done elements of it better. Tony Holohan, Martin Fraser and myself were all motivated by doing the right thing in the public interest. That has to be recognised and accepted. It would be nice if that was accepted and recognised. Whatever people might say about the process, we were motivated here exclusively by the public interest and what we thought was in the pubic interest. In that respect, I am very happy to stand over Tony's idea, which I think was an excellent idea. In a way, ultimately, the communications and how it became a political issue, it should not have become one and if it did, it was regrettable but that is history.