Mr. Francis Doherty:

When I became CEO, we tried to review invoices from that contractor and pretty much every contractor just to validate that what we were being charged for was actually being delivered. The sense from people that were closer to the works that were being done in the services was that there was a question at one point about whether there was a concern about inflation on those invoices. Lots of people in the organisation would feel extremely sorry for that individual because of their nature. They went to great extremes at different times to help the service's front-line staff, but at the end of the day received huge sums of money for work and there was a conflict that neither party declared. There were also issues with Kerdiffstown House. When I became CEO, I had to evict people from that company from outbuildings when one of the heads of service called me and asked if I was aware that there were staff from that contractor living on site, and stuff like that.