Mr. Paul Maloney:

That was the last time I had met him actually. I had met his staff. He phoned me - he did not meet me - to say he could not proceed with it. His reason was - and I totally understood - that his main focus was London, and still is. To move an operation of that scale, one of the biggest sites in Dublin, he would have to have set up a whole new team in Dublin. I accepted that and immediately rang the chairman to propose a second name.