Ms Anne O?Leary:

I will take the Deputy’s question on Deloitte. It was very important that it was during the March timeframe that Deloitte came to me and said it was an issue about the payments which had moved from one place to another. It immediately suggested that I go and get another extremely qualified audit company, which I did, Grant Thornton, to take a look at that. It was Deloitte that brought the issue to me. During that period of time we were coming to the end of our contract with it. To reappoint or to change an auditor is a six to eight month process, through interviewing and talking to the company, and about the audit process, etc. I, the audit team and the board came to the idea that it was the easier thing to do to allow Deloitte to continue. We have now, however, started the process of looking at changing our auditor during that period of time. I understand why the Deputy thinks that we are using the same auditor. The firm’s contract was coming to an end and we are now taking a look at appointing a different auditor and that will go out to tender.

The second part of the Deputy’s question asked if I was disappointed.