Mr. Adrian Lynch:

I will let the commercial director answer regarding the dates and so forth. I saw that contract for the first time last week. What actually underwrites the entire contract is a verbal agreement. As the Deputy will notice from reading the contract, there is no clause for underwriting, there is no clause for a €75,000 payment. It is literally an event sponsorship agreement. This entire contract is dependent on a verbal agreement that was given on 7 May 2020 by the director general to Noel Kelly.

Furthermore, we contacted the agent in March 2023 to get clarification around the invoices. We received confirmation of what the invoices were, their numbers and the fact that they were sent based on a verbal agreement between the agent and the director general. That was the clarification we got in, I believe, March of this year.

When we think about the tripartite agreement, everyone goes “That is everything that was being-----