Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. There is not a compliant programme, but is there a programme? They are using the phrase "a compliant programme". That is the point I am making. If there is a programme, one of the questions we need to ask is what about it that is not compliant and is likely to lead to slippage. The other issue I would like us to raise in our reply to them, because it has been something that has come up at the committee and we have all engaged in this, is that we have asked about the kind of sanctions that can be applied in terms of non-compliance. We can see in the most recent statement from the board that it has applied the 15% withholding. I would like to know when it applied that. Was it applied after the board had a meeting with us, for example? Was it applied after it did some due diligence or did it only apply it in recent days when this came back into the public domain? I would like to know the date it decided to do that and notified BAM about it. That would be useful to know.