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2411:29:581 contention with that. I will go onto the final paragraph.23 "One major difficulty" just if I could be indulged to read this because I think4 it goes at no time heart of everything we are discussing here in evidence.11:30:1056 "One major difficulty which I believe we could experience in approaching the7 retailers at this stage is one of confidence. With a scheme of this size and8 magnitude before such operators as John Lewis give too much consideration to9 the project, they will require a measure of comfort that this development will11:30:2910 take place. They will be looking to the experience of the development team or11 possibly the developer in having the ability to provide the right type of12 retail environment and arranging the necessary finance for it".1314 Now could I put to you Mr. Gilmartin, that that's wholly at variance with your11:30:4915 strategy that these people were all signed up and they were prepared to invest16 up to 500 million pounds in this country. That here is your advisor telling17 you that you are a mile away from what you had been contending is the facts18 A. No he is giving me the advice or expectations of the various would be tenants19 or the people who would take space in the things. He's just advising, he is11:31:1820 advising me. Actually Sheerer Harris was one of the top retail people in21 England.22 Q. 44 Well would you agree with me that their abilities were reflected on the23 provision of the information about the possibility of the developer an his24 track record in such developments and such vast schemes?11:31:3925 A. We had no problems with that because this Sprucefield centre in Northern26 Ireland was already done by Taggarts and their team, the team of people I had27 was and I would say second to none. And the advice I had, and the engineers I28 had were second to none.29 Q. 45 But would you agree, I would accept the professionalism of the professional11:32:0430 team. But somebody at Sprucefield would have appointed Taggarts, that's thePremier Captioning & Realtime Limitedwww.pcr.ie Day 474