Mr. Gary Tobin:

That is a good question. There is the European Court of Auditors, which forensically examines all expenditure by the Commission in a not-dissimilar way to how this committee and the Comptroller and Auditor General examine voted expenditure in Ireland. Interestingly, the committee may know that the European Court of Auditors is chaired by an Irish person, Mr. Tom Murphy, whom I believe is a former employee of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Obviously, we know the president of the European Court of Auditors well and we are satisfied that he takes a forensic approach to expenditure.