Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

If I may respond to Deputy Farrell on lines of communication, the principal line of contact should be through Mr. Carrie. As audits are carried out by different units within the organisation, it is impractical for me to give members a list of who is responsible for the different audits. If members then telephoned the organisation, the list will have changed within a month and people will have changed responsibility. In general, if Deputies have a query or wish to know something, they should contact Mr. Carrie.

I want to be careful here. If any of the members feel they would like a more detailed presentation, we are willing and would be happy to have them come individually or perhaps in a group of two or three to our offices. We could spend a morning working through the list of the accounts, showing members the accounts and audit certificates and talking about what we are trying to do. That is an offer. However, I know some members are very experienced and will certainly not need that kind of orientation. We are more than happy to do this and we can send over a number of people. We can organise that here and we will try to accommodate whatever works for members. If they feel a summary will work, we will be happy to provide one. Mr. Carrie will work ahead. Once the programme is settled, it allows him to plan, get a piece together and set out the issues for members. As I stated, we will try it and find out what works for individual Deputies and if something works better for somebody, we will try to accommodate that as well.