Mr. Joe O'Flynn:

No. We ended up paying for this report in order to have sight of it. I will explain. Our trustees were completing their report. There were inadequate records and no accounts. Our trustees compiled their report by way of the bank statements and bank records and so forth. We were advised that there was a forensic examination of the account being conducted by Grant Thornton on behalf of the administrator and his legal advisers. Before the publication of our trustees' report, we decided it would be advantageous to see if the figures and the details could be verified. For that reason we looked for a copy of the report but we were not given it. Eventually we secured sight of the report through a legal agreement whereby we had to pay for sight of the report but on condition that we could not publish it or copy it. The answer that was given to us was that this is a legal understanding arrived at and prepared in order to assist him in the Garda fraud squad investigation. It is not our report and it never was; SIPTU did not commission it. I am still of the view that it should be made available to the Comptroller and Auditor General. It would be helpful not just to the Comptroller and Auditor General but also to all of us to dispel any cloud that hangs over us because people ask us what is contained in the report.