Mr. Tony O'Brien:

In my judgment and that of my colleagues, the best way to get the result we want was to approach this through the LRC process and then implement that process. We said earlier that we intend to implement the outcome of the LRC process from 5 November. The reason is that whereas the majority of consultants are not the ones we are talking about here, it has been noted in the past that sometimes actions taken designed to achieve one event can have an unintended consequence and make the cash position worse. The judgment we made, given that we had the LRC process, was that it was best for the result we wanted to include a commitment on the part of the representative bodies that their members would sign forms within 14 days.