Ms Joanna Murphy:

No, it was not. I am loth to speak on behalf of anyone other than ConnectIreland but it is fair to say that the Department and IDA also recognise that the verification process is extraordinarily laborious. In many cases our client companies get no material benefit. In most cases, they do not get grant aid. They do not come here for that reason, rather they come here because Kinvara is the centre of the world. To ask a company to step through a process from which they obtain no material benefit is not right. With all due respect, these are busy people, scaling companies. Regardless of how much they like ConnectIreland they have a job to do. It is too much to expect of them.