Mr. Robert Watt:

As I have said repeatedly, and as I said in my statement to the Taoiseach, the Minister knew about the proposals for Dr. Holohan to move on. He knew about the notion that there was enhanced funding. He supported that. He went on record that week on "Morning Ireland" in saying that. It was a letter of intent. It was setting out our intention. Obviously, from the time of the letter of intent to finalising, we would have finalised all the details of that. We would have gone through it and figured out exactly how that would have been managed, and whether we would have done that by the end of March or waited for the Estimates process. All of that needed to be figured out.