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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

We accept it may be stupidity but given it was stupid and given that the emails were inappropriate and unacceptable, do you still intend to reappoint Mr Jasper if you are re-elected?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

We are conscious that you have deliberately created this to put up a wall of silence. Do not kid anyone.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

You are the Mayor. You are responsible for your staff.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Ken, can you help me with this? John Ross told us that when he discovered that Mr Jasper had not declared certain interests he notified you of that fact. Did you make sure a formal report of that was made to the Authority's Monitoring Officer?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I am going simply on your own comments that what he did in relation to the agreed facts - not the matter that the lawyer is looking at - of what was stupid and that the emails were inappropriate and unacceptable. Just on those bases alone do you still intend to reappoint him?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Dear, dear, you really have lost it haven't you?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

As far as you are concerned you are the Mayor, you are the directly elected Chief Executive and you are responsible, ultimately, for the probity of the organisation. The buck stops with you. One of your closest associates, a man you have worked with for 20-odd years and a man you trust with your life unfortunately breaches the Code of Conduct. That is not a matter for you to make sure that everything was properly recorded and documented to go to the Monitoring Officer; to protect yourself? You did not even do that?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

There are other qualified lawyers in this building. She happens to be someone who, by the nature of her job, has worked closely with Mr Jasper and also - because policy directors, your political appointees in other words, have to be identified with your policies - is closely identified with you. Why not ask the Chief Executive, the impartial Head of Paid Service, to make the search and employ such legal advice as he thinks appropriate?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

You have been misquoted again, have you?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

She is one of your political allies. That is the simple reality as are all your policy directors. Nothing wrong with that; that is the system.