Mr. Paul Maloney:

Their take on it was - and Ms Moylan explained why that trip was made - that they were developing a docklands which was to be of international standard and was to be a silicon docks for Dublin and Ireland, which it has turned out to be. To do so we had to compare ourselves to the best so we went to San Sebastián where the port was being moved and a docklands was being regenerated in the very same way. It was a one or two-day trip there.

However, there was certainly nothing about Russia or the World Cup. I absolutely would not have sanctioned that. I never went on what I would regard as a non-business trip and certainly not those distances. I went to rugby matches at my own cost and I have never heard otherwise. Certainly, there were board dinners and I cannot comment on what wine was purchased. There was one board dinner a year and that is why I can only surmise that they are adding ten years of the authority's expenditure in that. I accept the Chairman is giving me dates, but-----