Mr. Damien Moloney:

It is an independent office with its own set of functions and responsibilities under its own bespoke legislation, but we have arrangements with the office in terms of the financial control element of it and it reports to us on a monthly basis seeking its grant-in-aid. In recent years, the Comptroller and Auditor General has been inquiring about that with us in terms of our processes and one of the things we did was we converted an informal meeting with the LRC into a more formal one, so it was a structured meeting process, and that is an added check or control. Basically, it prepares its own accounts and, for reasons that are statutory in origin, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform presents its accounts and the Taoiseach presents our accounts.