Mr. Declan Doyle:

I was making an observation about the benefit of hindsight. To put the situation at Rehab in context, over the years we have moved from being a very small organisation to quite a large one. Initially, Rehab ran sheltered workshops, which was a largely commercial endeavour in the sense that one had to go out and sell one's services to commercial industry. We have always seen ourselves as a commercial not-for-profit organisation rather than a pure charity, even though we were always involved in a huge range of charity activities. I can remember doing pub quizzes and church gate collections in Limerick and all the kind of stuff that is associated with the local committee. Nevertheless, the general industrial benchmark was, in our view, appropriate for an organisation which had a growth mandate, was seeking generally to internationalise its business and had unique services which we felt we could offer outside Ireland. It seemed to me at the time a very sensible way to go and, therefore, we did not look to our sector. Of course, we should have done so.