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There has not been much engagement with the trade unions, the business community or the banking sector. No. In a way, we are trying to take an independent view.
Despite our asking the board not to make any payment until we could get to the bottom of its decision, it made the payment and Mr Doyle had the money in his bank account almost immediately after the board meeting.
That is a fair answer but one of the issues raised yesterday and again at the breakfast meeting with Don MacRae of the Bank of Scotland was about the Government strategy and our hopes for exports and increasing internationalisation.
In the various areas that it has invested in, a common theme has been that the projects are ones for which the banks or others would traditionally have provided the funding.
What impact has poor management had on the health of the workers who are below those who have practised such management? If we leave aside the banking sector, what do we need to do to achieve the management standards that will help to alleviate many of the health problems that workers experience in their workplace?
I was pleased to note that, at stage 2, the Government introduced amendments to prevent a scrap metal dealer from paying in cash by clarifying that only a bank or building society account may be used when undertaking a sale of metal.
They can address exporting, and we have a bank of mentors with international experience from which we can draw to match them with any company that has plans for international expansion.
We are also now seeing an increase in the use of food banks. The Scottish Government is doing everything that it can to help those who are in that situation by working with stakeholders to mitigate the worst of the impacts of welfare reform on those who are on the lowest incomes through the various measures and decisions that it has taken.