Professor Don Barry:

-----that in the briefing paper I submitted to the committee there is an extract from the Committee of Public Accounts meeting of 8 October 2015 which, I think, indicates that the individual allocations were looked at by an external party, namely, the Comptroller and Auditor General, and that the Comptroller and Auditor General at that meeting was asked for his view as to whether the control lapses that I have spoken about earlier had been dealt with and replied to in the affirmative. The Comptroller and Auditor General is the authority who I rely on to do the kind of detailed assessment of the individual payments the Deputy is referring to.