• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

How much of your brief is taken up by transport?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Mr O'Neill, can you tell me what your responsibilities are?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Are you surprised that the Mayor said, `I often find lots of documents produced here which, if I had had time to go through and amend, would have had a strongly different tone'?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

What systems are in place to try to prevent things going out or being said in the Mayor's name that he may completely disagree with?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Would you be kind enough to refresh our memories?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Mr Fletcher, as Chief of Staff, what are your responsibilities?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Perhaps the advisers present could tell us the system that there is whereby they report to you and how they act when they are acting on your behalf? How do they make sure there is an audit trail to ensure they are acting in accordance with your wishes and any changes are spot checked?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

I notice you said that some things would have had a `strongly different tone'. Do all the mayoral advisers report directly to you or to the Chief of Staff (Simon Fletcher)?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Why is it that you told the Assembly at the last MQT that, `Sometimes things go out from this building that I completely disagree with'? Surely there must have been a failure on the part of your advisers if that happens?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Mr Mayor, generally, and when you have been absent for various occasions, is it correct that you have delegated your functions ' with one or two rare exceptions ' to the Chief of Staff normally, or occasionally other of your policy directors?