Mr. John Conlon:

I know the Leas-Chathaoirleach has requested the legal advice and we will take that request back for consideration. Normally, we do not share legal advices but I ask that she allow me to take that request back and we can revert to the committee then.

On the 2013 position, it was very much a legal position under an arbitration agreement. The arbitration did not go to the full hearing and the legal advice we received was that we were obliged to sign what was signed at that stage.

The Leas-Chathaoirleach may have noticed that it went back to arbitration in more recent years and there was a more full exposition of the business case during that process but the arbitrator kept his decision very much to the legalities of the contractual position in which we found ourselves in 2013.