Mr. Robert Shortt:

Well, my explanation of it is that the first time this surfaced as a point of inquiry was when the auditors uncovered two transactions about which they had questions. They came to Anne O'Leary, as the chair of the audit and risk committee, and alerted her to this. They came to the scheduled meeting of the audit and risk committee, where they briefed us in more detail about the issue. We took the actions that we did, which the committee knows about now. From that narrow perspective in terms of what when on, if that is what the Cathaoirleach is referring to, in respect of these two transactions and everything that has arisen from them, the functioning of the board was, dare I say it, quite efficient in pushing this on to its conclusion, which was the publication of the report on 16 December to us in the audit and risk committee. We gave it to the full board, with recommendations, for its meeting on the following Monday and here we are a week later. From that narrow perspective, if the Cathaoirleach is talking about something going on that dates back years, could she be a little bit more specific? Are the wider issues that have been raised in the course of today's questioning being referred to? Are we talking about everything that has flown and emerged from these two transactions, which was the beginning of all of this? If it is just about these two transactions, then I am very satisfied and I will stand over the actions that we took.