Mr. Pat Colgan:

There would have been quite a significant component of external auditing of the programme as part of the closure procedure but also during the lifetime of the programme by the European Court of Auditors, the Directorate General for the European Regional Development Fund in Brussels which would have undertaken its own audits and by way of regulatory-required audits which would have been commissioned and carried out by us. There is a suite of audits. The SEUPB is audited by the Northern Ireland Audit Office in co-operation and partnership with the Comptroller and Auditor General. It audits our accounts and does sample checks on verifications and a range of different things we do. As I said, it is the nature of auditing that one cannot give an absolute guarantee-----