Dr. Tom Ryan:

When the incident was notified, we were all doing our own things. In our case, we were working to look at all of the regulated entities to see if they were the cause. We were co-ordinating professionally between the agencies but it was not until the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, stepped in that the response became co-ordinated. I am sure we could have moved to that situation earlier. That is the kind of protocol we will work to. The other deficit I see relates to communication. Perhaps we could have communicated with the public earlier as to what we were doing. We were responding to all of the media queries that came in but providing information to the public is really crucial in these sorts of incidents. There are definitely learnings for all of us.