Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Search the Evidence

…me? SIR WYN WILLIAMS: Yes, thank you very much. MR STEVENS: Thank you, sir. We'll be hearing from Mr O'Sullivan. PATRICK HENRY PIERCE O'SULLIVAN (sworn) Questioned by MR STEVENS MR STEVENS: Thank you. Please can you state your full name. A. Patrick Henry O'Sullivan. Q. Thank you, Mr O'Sullivan, for giving evidence to the Inquiry and thank…

…me? SIR WYN WILLIAMS: Yes, thank you very much. MR STEVENS: Thank you, sir. We'll be hearing from Mr O'Sullivan. PATRICK HENRY PIERCE O'SULLIVAN (sworn) Questioned by MR STEVENS MR STEVENS: Thank you. Please can you state your full name. A. Patrick Henry O'Sullivan. Q. Thank you, Mr O'Sullivan, for giving evidence to the Inquiry and thank…

…........... 125 Further questioned by MS HODGE ............. 128 Questioned by SIR WYN WILLIAMS ............ 134 PATRICK HENRY PIERCE O'SULLIVAN (sworn) .136 Questioned by MR STEVENS .................. 136 Questioned by MR JACOBS ................... 186 Questioned by MR HENRY .................... 191 198 (50) Pages 197 - 198

…...........125 Further questioned by MS HODGE ..............128 Questioned by SIR WYN WILLIAMS ..............134 PATRICK HENRY PIERCE O'SULLIVAN (sworn) .....136 Questioned by MR STEVENS ....................136 Questioned by MR JACOBS .....................186 Questioned by MR HENRY .....................191 198

…UKGI. Can we start, please, with UKGI00016718. It's a Shareholder Executive Board meeting on 16 July, chaired by Patrick 135 O'Sullivan. You're in attendance, it would be as a Non-Exec Director. If we can go down, please, to risk registers. Paragraph 2.1 significant improvements to a risk register and Patrick O'Sullivan is recorded as say…

…om a Post Office perspective. MR JACOBS: Thank you. I don't have any further questions for you. Questioned by MR HENRY 191 MR HENRY: Mr O'Sullivan, you were appointed in 2011. Can you help us when that was? A. I believe it was October. It's on the appointment -- the appointment letter from my predecessor. Let me have a look. Q. Let's take…

uestioned by MR HENRY 191 Horizon IT Inquiry 10 July 2024 POL. So they didn't get through. A. But in the context of the Post Office Board, who had the responsibility to determine the significanc uestioned by MR HENRY 191 Horizon IT Inquiry 10 July 2024 POL. So they didn't get through. A. But in the context of the Post Office Board, who ha…

…UKGI. Can we start, please, with UKGI00016718. It's a Shareholder Executive Board meeting on 16 July, chaired by Patrick 135 Horizon IT Inquiry 9 July 2024 "Lead the s a continuum from ShEx to UKGI. Can we start, please, with UKGI00016718. It's a Shareholder Executive Board meeting on 16 July, chaired by Patrick 135 Horizon IT Inquiry 9 J…

…reholder Executive. Please can we bring up UKGI00045953. Thank you. This is a draft letter in November 2013 from Patrick O'Sullivan, who was then Chairman of the Shareholder Executive, to you, with your appointment as a Non-Executive Board Member and attached to it, we see at page 3, are the Shareholder Executive Board's terms of referenc…

…reholder Executive. Please can we bring up UKGI00045953. Thank you. This is a draft letter in November 2013 from Patrick O'Sullivan, who was then Chairman of the Shareholder Executive, to you, with your appointment as a Non-Executive Board Member and attached to it, we see at page 3, are the Shareholder Executive Board's terms of referenc…

…to be able to answer -- Q. Well, returning to you, sir, and I don't need to take 105 you to the document, but Mr Patrick O'Sullivan was questioned about UKGI00016739, the minutes of a Shareholder Executive Board meeting from 13 March 2013, and various risks relating to the RMG flotation were discussed but nowhere at all did the ShEx Board…

…and I know what it is like to write a prospectus 107 Horizon IT Inquiry 15 July 2024 you to the document, but Mr Patrick O'Sullivan was questioned about UKGI00016739, the minutes of a Shareholder Executive Board meeting from 13 March 2013, and various risks relating to the RMG flotation were discussed but nowhere at all did the ShEx Board…

rspective. I think that's how Patrick O'Sullivan has described it. Is that a description that you would agree with? A. I didn't particularly think of it as an asset. My view (2) Pages 5 - 8 The Post Office of the Non-Executive Director role is as set out in the Companies Act 2006. As a shareholder representative, I had some additional thi…

…al Non-Executive Director role; but also communicating the day-to-day Government perspective. I think that's how Patrick O'Sullivan has described it. Is that a description that you would agree with? A. I didn't particularly think of it as an asset. My view (2) Pages 5 - 8

…al Non-Executive Director role; but also communicating the day-to-day Government perspective. I think that's how Patrick O'Sullivan has described it. Is that a description that you would agree with? A. I didn't particularly think of it as an asset. My view of the Non-Executive Director role is as set out in the Companies Act 2006. As a sh…