Professor Shane Kilcommins:

I want to clarify. I do not know whether the chief corporate officer had a long-standing engagement or not. All I can relay to the Deputy is that what I was told, in coming to the PAC, was the he could not attend because of an investigation into the transaction. I went on that basis. When this engagement was communicated to members at the PAC meeting last year, that was a surprise to me as well. I do not know whether he had or had not a long-standing commitment. The issue I raised, on my return from PAC, was that there was an inconsistency. On the one hand, I was told one thing and, on the other, PAC was told another thing. What I raised with the president and the chief corporate officer was that if there was an issue in terms of what they told PAC that needed to be corrected and that they should do so.