You can’t feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

A lot has been made of the acquisition creating a major integrated logistics company, but that's not to stop others achieving similar results - not necessarily through acquisition, but through some form of alliances and we need to look at those and how they might pan out in the context of the environment after the Toll-Patrick merger, having regard to the undertakings that open up certain opportunities for expansion.

However, increased passenger numbers have seen airport costs on a per passenger basis generally decrease or slightly increase during this time and combined with price rises, airport profitability has risen substantially over the period.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.

Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.

In particular, there are concerns arising because of the strength of a combined Toll-Patrick across a large number of related areas in the transport sector.

The intensity of the debate on ULL pricing suggests that after seven years of regulation, competition is finally gaining some traction.

Even with Toll's proposed undertakings, significant detrimental effects on competition are still likely to arise.

A merger of the second and third largest suppliers of architectural and decorative paint has the potential to lead to a significant reduction in competition and increased prices.