Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

We did not identify any particular problem with the payments to any of the 11 recipients. Those who did agree to receive a letter from us wrote back to confirm they had received the payments that were recorded. None of them denied having received a payment. There is possibly some sort of assurance to be taken from that in the sense that those who declined to be contacted, while that amounted to a refusal to co-operate with the investigation, were at least not making the claim that it could not possibly have been them who received the payment.