Mr. Paul O'Toole:

We have finished that report and passed it to the Department of Social Protection, which has responsibility for the jobs initiative. We had responsibility for it at the time. There was what we believed to be irregular expenditure. The greater bulk of expenditure on a jobs initiative programme by FÁS is on the cost to participants. We have reviewed the initiative from our perspective and believe that some of the expenditure was inappropriate. We have been in constant contact with the Garda and have sent the report to it. The Garda will consider the report from the point of view of whether matters of a criminal nature arise. We cannot determine that.

The report has just been produced. It will go to the next meeting of our audit committee, which will be this month. We will consider it and its implications then. Due to its nature, we are constrained in what we can say. The report has just gone to the Garda for consideration.