Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The allegations that were brought to the attention of the committee in March 2012 were sent to my office but they were also sent to the university, which responded to them by the end of April 2012. We subsequently examined the issues. We were finishing the audits at the time and the fieldwork had been completed on the periods in which these incidents had occurred but we also examined them when we went back in again. Our focus was on whether control lapses, if there were any, were continuing in the organisation. We have followed up on the type of problems that were identified and have drawn to the attention of the university matters in the management letters concerning control lapses.