Ms Josephine Feehily:

No. The Comptroller and Auditor General said we were monitoring for other countries but had not made any requests. In fact we have, 15 of them. We have also made significant numbers of requests under mutual assistance. We are quite active in the spontaneous exchange of information. We sent spontaneous information to other countries alerting them to something that might be useful to them 294 times last year, principally under carousel. We received 89 spontaneous pieces of information from other member states. Also, we sent out information on 254 transactions and received information on 443. These would be where another member state asks us or we ask it to check a transaction. The request comes into the office and we send it to a district. We have three months to answer and that is going on all of the time.