Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

In fairness to the Arts Council, it did inform the Department when the expenditure decisions were made. It should have sought the Department's consent and, as a corollary, the Department should have demanded that it seek our consent. However, it did inform us, and one of the issues we identified, which I mentioned in my opening statement the last time around, was that these issues were not escalated within the Department to a high enough level.