Mr. Kenneth Ruane:

To provide full disclosure to the committee regarding what is being discussed at the moment, at a meeting on 6 August 2015 I indicated that certain issues may have needed to be referred for external advice to the Attorney General's office. It is documented. It was a factual issue as opposed to a legal one. It is my obligation to bring it to the committee's attention. Mr. Culhane was concerned that I was seeking external advice, or that I was even proposing to seek external advice, outside of my own remit on certain matters, but-----