Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

The Deputy is correct legally. Yesterday evening we clearly indicated our position to the FAI and obtained its agreement to conduct the kind of audit we wanted to conduct. We needed its agreement because legally we did not have the power. I believe, however, these circumstances transcend nice legalities. The public interest is at stake in dealing with an issue that involves one of our most prominent sports organisations which competes domestically and internationally. Like the Olympic Federation of Ireland, our international reputation is at stake and we must take a far more extensive view, an umbrella view.

One of the reasons, as I said earlier in this context, is that if we do not do it, who will? It cannot be left in abeyance.