Mr. Jim Nugent:

With regard to the HSE, on a personal basis - I know my board will have the same view - we have the height of respect for it and greatly appreciate the relationship. We work very closely with it on a week-by-week and month-by-month basis.

With respect to my attitude towards the taxpayer, or this House or anything else, I have only the height of respect. I have done many years, in various roles, on a voluntary basis. In the context of this organisation, we have always behaved properly and correctly with respect to what our role is in the public eye and in the way the taxpayer would see us. There was nobody here trying to play games with anything, as would seem to be made out.