Mr. Michael O'Flynn:

Dr. Lyons and I worked very hard that summer. It took from July to November to finalise the report with the support of a helpful work group. By the time our report came out in November, people who had supported the other report in July felt they were not in a position to consider our report. That is important, in case people will think that, of the 12 commissioners, nine or ten of them, or whatever way you want to look at it, went one way and the other two or three went the other way. That is not the position at all because both reports were not available at the time.

In the context of the great advice we got and the question we posed, unfortunately, as I said earlier, when the sub-committee came to the commission with the recommendations, it was, for want of a better description, pushed through at that meeting when we felt there were unanswered issues. That is why we took the serious step of preparing a minority report. There were a lot of unanswered questions. Speaking for myself, I certainly took my position on the Housing Commission very seriously and felt I could not support the report. That is why we explored another way of doing this, given that we all have a common objective. We all want to fix this situation. This is systemic rather than individualistic. I was coming at this from my experience in the housing area.