Mr. Fergal O'Leary:

I will tell the Deputy what I regret in that regard, but will say first that the purpose of that pilot assessment programme, and it is in the name, was to test AHBRA's internal assumptions and procedures, to gather feedback and refine our approach before rolling out a full assessment programme. I have a regret, which is that we should not have given an outcome to the 15 AHBs that participated in that programme.

It was not helpful to us and it was not helpful to them but at the time we felt for their work on it we should give them something in return. In hindsight that was a mistake.