Mr. Tony O'Brien:

The information we had since 2013 was that the individual's pay had been regularised but there was no disclosure of any substantial buy out. No business case was made and no approval was sought. In many instances throughout this process, individuals simply voluntarily gave up their additional payments without any buy out. That happened on a large basis throughout this process. Unless it was disclosed to us, we would not have known that through, apparently, some separate entity - part of the family, so to speak - the funds said not to be public funds were used to pay an additional sum in respect of the surrendering of that entitlement. Again, I speak without the benefit of the results of this audit. We will happily share all of the outcome of the internal audit once it is complete.