Mr. Brian Kealy:

We have not been in touch with the Ombudsman because, if I recall correctly, at the time the company went out of business, which was 2012, the IAA did not come within the remit of the Ombudsman and was not subject to freedom of information requests. Therefore, there was no route open to us in that regard. The information we obtained under freedom of information was in relation to correspondence between the IAA and the Department of Transport.