Dr. Alan Wall:

I beg the Deputy's pardon. What we addressed in the Dunnes issue was the governance gap between what the governing authority and executive did when it decided to buy its own land, and how it informed us of that. We used the new Act to create 14 touch points they had with regard to Rhebogue where they could have told us. We rely on assurances. The authority has the autonomy to do this, but the autonomy comes with a price. It is a public body and is obliged to stay within the public spending code.