Mr. Peadar Ó Scanaill:

If I may add, this must also be taken in the context of very regular questioning, such as whether a corporate body can buy a practice. A corporatisation was occurring in other jurisdictions worldwide, as mentioned earlier, so the pressure was on at all times for the council to come up with an answer, and we kept saying, "No, get your own legal advice." It became clear, however, that we would have to come up with some answer on the matter, and it came from those legal advices we were using in December 2017.