Mr. Michael Culhane:

Chairman, I am being accused of several things here now. It is clear in my minute of May 2008 that I tried to advance this as much as possible. I submitted my report to the chief administrative officer, who in turn submitted it to the Commissioner, who in turn agreed with the recommendations in my report. In parallel to that then, it was given to Deputy Commissioner Rice who was the deputy commissioner SCM at the time. It is clear from his minute that he did not agree with the report. He is quoted here about holding the moneys within the college. Chief Superintendent Nolan, who was the director of training at the time, did a report in 2010 where effectively he introduced easy recommendations but did not fundamentally alter the structure of the college. When chief administrative officer Leamy retired or resigned I was reporting to Deputy Commissioner Rice for approximately two years. I also encountered the same resistance, so I certainly want to put it on the record that I am not thwarting Mr. Kelly in his work. In terms of what I have done and tried to do to address these issues, I did the best I could. If the organisation decided that it did not want these reports or my report to get the visibility it got, it decided it, not me.