Mr. Tony Murphy:

Yes, if it falls within the sample. The Commission has an obligation to make sure all these funds are being spent properly. This just happened to come up in our random sample. As I said, we do a sample of 750 transactions and this happened to be one of them. Migration accounts for €3.2 billion, which means it is quite small in terms of the overall MFF. We looked at only 28 or 30 transactions in total and a couple of them were in Ireland. Unfortunately, the case in question was the one we have been discussing.

In terms of the humanitarian response, we also do a number of non-financial audits of how migration is being handled in member states, including the processing of migrants, etc. I remember we did one some years ago on migration hot spots in Italy and Greece. We went to those locations to see how and if the systems were working. There are two aspects, one being financial compliance and the other relating to the systems in place for the processing or returning of emigrants, including, for example, the deal with Turkey. We look at all those types of things as well.