Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I refer now to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, section 3.12. A sample of 56 individual payees with payments to the value of €370,000 were selected for confirmation of the amounts paid. As the payment records show only the names of the payees, the inspection team forwarded a list of payees to SIPTU and requested that it assist with the supply of addresses, where possible, to comply with data protection requirements. SIPTU then asked the individuals who are known to the union for permission to allow their contact details to be provided so that the inspection team could contact them. Forty people who had received payments from this account were identified and I think only 11 came forward to allow their contact details to be provided. The large majority of people who have been identified as a sample of receiving payments from this account on an individual basis have effectively refused to co-operate with the investigation. Is that a fair way of presenting it, in Mr. O'Flynn's view?