Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

Both of the former CEOs of the VEC would have drawn some matters to our attention as we went along. The major issue identified in the report relates to the Macroom Youth Centre and it was the chief executive officer of Cork Vocational Education Committee, Ms Russell, who drew that to our attention initially. However, it was only when an internal audit report was put into the public domain as a result of correspondence sent to the Committee of Public Accounts and others that we saw the scale of the issues. We then sought to follow up on the range of those issues with the VEC.