Mr. Lar Bradshaw:

Yes. Deputy Donohoe asked a question about what happened. My recollection is that Paul Maloney and I met the chief executive of Dublin Port Company, Enda Connellan, and also met the advisers to South Wharf. The upshot of those two conversations was nothing. I will be perfectly honest with the committee. I was not too excited about this because I had quite a fractious discussion with Mr. Coulson and subsequently heard from a number of different sources that he found me very difficult to deal with. I was not particularly excited about spending my time trying to mediate unless people wanted to be mediated. My feeling was that the minute we suggested the discussion and mediation with the Dublin Port Company, Enda Connellan as CEO said, and I can understand why he would do so, that this was worth a huge amount of money. When we met Mr. Coulson's advisers, they were very friendly but did not seem particularly interested so that was the end of it. That is why there was only one meeting of that sub-committee. It went nowhere.