Mr. Brian Conlan:

A tender would have taken a considerable amount of time. It was a decision I had to make. Sometimes one must take decisions. The risk was that we would get nothing back. At least now, with the agreement that has been put in place with MMS Medical, there is some recovery of moneys and the six jobs that had been in CRC Medical Devices were saved. I believe that if we had gone to tender and extended it for six months or longer, the company would have gone bust. That would have been the end of it, no moneys would have been received back and the jobs would have been lost.