Ms Angela Kerins:

To clarify, when we sent the letter, I had already had a conversation with the auditor and pointed out we had some issues but that we wanted to meet. I sent him the letter subsequently. A number of people in my office tried to have this meeting established on a number of occasions to progress the issue. What we really wanted to do was sit down with the Department and the audit section to go through these issues. There was a very clear discussion where we felt the best thing to do was write down the key issues for us. As the Chairman said, most of the recommendations concerned the Department. There was at least one conversation and several attempts by Rehab to set up that meeting.