Mr. Martin Bourke:

As it is a public private partnership, the business affairs of the other party, which actually runs the Convention Centre Dublin, are not something that we become involved in. We cannot become involved in them. We oversee the conduct of the project agreement, which is a 250-page legal document which places a certain onus on people to run it in a particular manner, to have international conference delegates, ICDs, to have it open, and so on. Outside that, the matter of individual personnel, how it hires people and how it remunerates people is not something we can become involved in. It goes back to what the Comptroller and Auditor General said earlier. When the State brings in private sector people, they do business in their own way. How much they pay their own people and who they hire or dismiss is not something we can become involved in.