Mr. Francis Doherty:

The initial action was to try to find out what had happened, where the money had gone and what it had been spent on. I knew the agreement related to a certain number of properties that the trust had agreed to purchase, but none of those had actually been purchased. My immediate focus was trying to find out where the money had gone. When I understood the money had gone to Assisi House, it was a case of tracking it down and recovering it. Ultimately, €350,000 was recovered. There was information used to identify that €1 million had not been spent. That was reported to the chair of the organisation.