This might be our last chance for now to look at the lessons of the RHA scandal.

I'm on my own in the Red Line studio this week as the coronavirus crisis continues to bear down on us.

And as the news focuses quite rightly on that,

we felt it might still be an idea to reflect on some aspects of the RHA story

that might have slipped past a lot of people unnoticed.

And let's just remember that a lot of the people who were involved in the RHA saga are the very same people we're looking towards to steer us through the choppy waters of COVID-19.

So, joining me remotely from their various boatholes around the country are Connor McCauley,

our Agriculture and Environment Correspondent, Mary Kelly, columnist and commentator,

and Stephen Grimmison, former Director of Communications for the Stormont Executive.

Welcome to you all.

Connor, first of all, what surprised you most about the Cochland report when it was finally published last Friday?

I suppose, Mark, having watched all, or virtually all of the inquiry evidence over a year or whatever it was of the actual hearings,

I think the surprise me most was not some of the things that were in it or some of the things that weren't in it.

I think generally it was the tone of it. The language used was very reserved. The tone of the findings very

judicially kind of set out. There was none of the drama. I suppose having watched the hearings,

there was a lot of drama in the hearings. There was a lot of eye rolling and snorting for Mr Patrick Cochland.

And you know, we really didn't see any of that replicated in terms of the findings.

It was very carefully written, quite cautious, I suppose, in the use of language.

And you know, there were a few times where I thought there were findings were almost there

was a line missing that you were expecting another line that said this happened and it was absolutely outrageous or that really shouldn't

have happened and people should take a long, hard look at themselves and that line was missing.

So I suppose really it was the tone of it that surprised me most of all.

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