Ms Sarah Keane:

Yes. Everyone was told about it on Monday. I was even a little uncomfortable with its disclosure on Monday on the basis that the board had not discussed the matter. However, it was felt that as we had said we would be as transparent as possible and that we were coming out on the basis of the Moran report, we should made a call to disclose it.

Regarding the 2018 games, Deputy Mick Barry's observations are correct in that if the local organising committee rejects the authorised ticket reseller, that allows us to extricate ourselves from the relevant legal agreement. Therefore, if the agreements are valid, a question on which, as I said, we reserve our position and which is under review, and the Tokyo local organising committee does not accept THG, that will allow us to extricate ourselves. However, that would mean waiting for almost every local organising committee for all of the different individual games, which is not necessarily an ideal solution if that is where we find ourselves and the board considers the agreements are not in the best interests of the organisation.

Regarding the emails, it was one of the first decisions of the board which the crisis management committee implemented that it needed to be proactive at that point, as well as taking responsibility for the position of the organisation, which is why it started the Grant Thornton review. One of the decisions of the board that was made known publicly was that the Grant Thornton report would be delivered directly to the Moran inquiry. Unfortunately, the board made a different decision at a later stage owing to the threat of legal injunctions not to complete that report. Therefore, I think there were many factors at the time surrounding the various ongoing reports. However, as I said, the current board will have to consider whether there is value in speaking to Grant Thornton again about the work it had done up until the point at which it was asked to stop to see whether it might be able to add or shed light on something that is perhaps not clarified in the Moran report.