Professor Tom Collins:

Without making any comment on the behaviour of an employee, I will say that the decision not to appeal was a collective decision of IFI. That is the first thing to say. Second, I have not yet looked at the cost of defending it, so I will come back to the committee with that.

I do not know what they were, but I am clear that in any hearing of this nature and no matter what organisation you are involved in, you have to look at it from certain angles. They relate to whether the position of the organisation at the outset was tenable, and if it was not, where its exposures were and how we can ensure there will not be a recurrence of the patterns that led to a situation in which the organisation would lose a case at the WRC. You absolutely have to look at your processes throughout, and that is what we are doing.

I do not know what the costs were but I will revert to the Senator on that.