We don't really have standard operating procedures around them.

The main reason for the analysis is that we need to take an in-depth look at how we're going about making our decisions to make sure what we're asking companies to do is useful, feasible and can be completed in a timely manner. We want to make sure what we're requesting is adding value to our overall understanding of the safety, efficacy and optimal use of the product.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this country with unmitigated losses of Anglo and massive legacy issues that would have been expected when nationalising a fraudulent bank.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.