Ms Niamh Sweeney:

I would like to add something. It refers to the 1 August hearing of the committee. I want to correct the record on one matter. It is a small issue. I do not know if it will be of major concern to the committee but at one point in time when Deputy Dooley was asking us about training materials being used at our outsource partner, CPL, for the training of content reviewers, we had been given to understand that the PowerPoint decks that were being used had been changed. As part of the investigation we have carried out in that interim period, we are now clear that they were not changed.

It was hard to figure out the context of some of the material that was being shown in the programme because we did not have the before and after story. That was an example that had come up in the course of somebody's work and they were taking a second look at it as a team. It was not part of the normal training materials that had been produced. I just wanted to make sure that this was corrected on the record, because we did give the impression that it had been changed and that was not the case.