Mr. Maurice Buckley:

Most of them are in place already. We would have realised this point last year during our dialogue with the Comptroller and Auditor General and once the auditor started his work. We immediately assessed how this happened and looked at the checks and balances that we thought we had in place. Like any system, something happens to show a gap and that gap has been addressed. We now have an independent, final check of the lease package at the very end by someone who has not been involved.

A lot of this is a case of not seeing the wood for the trees. One can see quite clearly that because of staff resources, because systems we had in place since before the recession had not changed, and because we were trying to cover the same systems with fewer staff, as I mentioned in terms of not seeing the wood for the trees, a blind spot entered into the control process. Obviously, it should not have and we have put systems in place now so that cannot happen in the future.