Mr. Ted Owens:

Regarding what happened in those particular instances, there are 22 schools in County Cork VEC and seven Youthreach centres. There are 29 various centres, some of those schools and Youthreach centres would have held local bank accounts. If teachers were collecting money for a trip abroad, for school books or uniforms, in some instances, there would have been locally held bank accounts. We have now done a review of all our centres and we are in the process of trying to ensure that there are not any locally held bank accounts. We are trying to close them down and we are encouraging people to make sure that all payments are made from head office and head office only. Some of that tax settlement would have resulted from locally held bank accounts where they paid referees.