Mr. Eugene Cummins:

I thank the Chairman. I wish to make two points. On the procedures in place in regard to procurement, we are totally under the control of auditing procedures, the Comptroller and Auditor General, external auditors and internal auditors.

We have to justify all decisions we make in terms of financial spend, so the process is cumbersome but it is a continual checking and auditing and we have to justify spend. I will now ask my colleague-----