In all candour: you can do without it.
Mr McCormick was asked whether he believed Mrs Foster had acted "without due candour" when she told the BBC's Stephen Nolan that she was not aware of DUP Spad involvement in delays to the introduction of cost controls.
But it is interesting that the DoH - eventually - agreed that this could be revealed to the public without excessive damage to the future candour of policy discussions.
He said: "In fact, it should tend to assist in the search for the truth in that it will enable these men to come forward and answer with candour the questions that may be put to them without the fear and the same element of risk to their safety".
One of the many fascinating things about Romer as a poet is the way in which he can incorporate, as echo and allusion and influence, writers who would seem to be incompatible, but without sacrificing his own voice, his own unusual candour.
He says this without any hint of self-pity, but with disarming candour - two more keynotes to the book.
The only redemptive feeling it prompted was admiration for Fragoso's unwavering candour: she is a talented writer and her memoir is executed without judgment or shame.
That will require greater candour.
