Ms Eimear Cusack:

All I can say to the Senator is that the agreement was reached between the CFO and the director general outside of the process. The director general and the CFO reported into the board every month. The only person I had to rely on was my manager, who was the director general, who had the authority to make that decision. I did not. To be honest with you, I trusted her. I would not have thought of going over her head to the board. I had never been to the board except on a number of occasions to talk about stuff in general terms. I did not have that. That is just the truth of it.