Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

This is something else I have had to get my head around. It is an ongoing process which is eating up an enormous amount of time for Ms Cusack's colleagues. We have to deal with it properly. Frankly, some of the cases were brought to my attention. It is right that we are dealing with them because we need to regularise this. We are working closely with the scope section. I have a meeting with it in the next few weeks.

On the actual appeals themselves, which I asked about, these are taken on very narrow grounds. The presumption is to accept the findings unless there is a point of law or a point of fact. We can get the costs to the committee if that would be helpful to it.