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". – I am grateful to the honourable Member. Firstly, whilst the Commission does exercise the natural modesty of any responsible authority, I could not accept from the honourable Member that we have a lot to learn about internal disputes. He is familiar with the background to this case and has been good enough to accept the accuracy of the description that has been provided to him in this House. What occurred by the late weeks of May last year was a very manifest and severe breakdown in working relationships, which meant that action had to be taken with rapidity simply because delay would have prolonged the difficulty without bringing any prospect of reconciliation. In those circumstances, with regret, but nevertheless assuming responsibility, the Commission – in the person of myself, who has the portfolio responsibility for personnel – had to act.
In the course of these events, Mrs Andreasen has definitely not been victimised. As part of the evidence for that, I would suggest one item: it is the way in which I insisted – and my colleagues in the Commission readily accepted – that when Mrs Andreasen's suspension came she should be suspended on full pay, partly in order to make it absolutely, abundantly clear that the Commission was not in any sense prejudging her case – a case that is still under consideration because of prima facie evidence that she allegedly may have committed serious breaches of staff regulations. The disciplinary procedure as it has been conducted has been undertaken in scrupulous observance of the rules and with scrupulous defence of Mrs Andreasen's rights of natural justice. It is therefore regrettable, certainly – as all disciplinary procedures are – but it is certainly not ridiculous."@en1
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