I note, however, that members of the Committee of Public Accounts accept that the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General will have processed each item of the agenda it puts forward. Is it not a fact that the auditors had all the information available to them to make this decision? Consequently, must it not be a fact that if the European Court of Auditors stated that Ireland's data were out of date and that information was unavailable, this is what was put before it? Therefore, must it not follow that Ireland's case was weakened because it could not put the proper facts to those who sought to support us because our data were weak, out of date and did not reflect what we had done?

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