Mr. Rory Coveney:

On the costs, the Senator will see from the numbers we released today that it actually came in under cost. The problem was revenues, not costs. Yes, we would have had meetings every week with finance on costs and I would have kept the director general in particular abreast of how that was going.

With regard to Ryan, he is perfectly entitled to take a view on a project. He was asked and consulted by the two producers of the musical, who were the producers of “The Late Late Show” at the time, and they had various conversations with him. He did not want to be part of it but he was supportive of them.