Mr. Tom Parlon:

Well, I don't know. Obviously, the powers that be in the CIF chose to hire me eventually. It was coincidental that I found myself redundant, I suppose, at the same period that Mr. Kelleher had announced he was about to retire or ... from the organisation. So I believe the position was widely advertised and a recruitment agency, you know, recruited, or rather interviewed a lot of people, and apparently it was quite after the event before a decision was taken that I got a phone call saying, "Look it, we understand you might have an interest in this job".