• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

How are you going to conduct this sampling process?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

So you are telling the Assembly that, simply based on the information that you held in your records, on the assumption that all of your records were complete, you were able to come to a conclusion with regard to what Brenda Stern said, that as far as you were concerned there is no case to answer? Would not the obvious thing for you to have done have been to go to the source of the allegations? Is that not an elementary thing to do? Why did you limit your investigation just to the material which you say that you hold?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Or any of the people who are involved in the running of the organisations, obviously?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Have you referred it then fully to the District Auditor and said, 'We think there is further work that needs to be done'?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

When you say that you are making all of the files available, will you understand our scepticism when earlier this year the Assembly's Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee asked lots of questions about the Bernie Grant Centre and we were originally told that there were only a few sheets of information available but then, when we asked for the matter to be investigated more closely, 40 cartons of papers were made available? It is very difficult for us on that basis to know what precisely is going to be the full information that you hold.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Just for the record, what formally are those roles that you fulfil, then? You are an accountant, I believe, but also you are the Financial Officer and that is defined in statute. Is that right?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

First of all a specific point: there are standard phrases which occur in a number of paragraphs of the review, one that the review has identified weaknesses, in effect, in procedures which are now being addressed and, second, the point is made, I think, on three or four occasions about the way in which the Mayoral advisory role is conducted in respect of programme delivery should be clarified. What specific steps are you taking to carry forward those conclusions?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

So, two thirds of the six you concentrated on require further work. You make the point in your report, 'Further work is required in respect of four organisations including referral to police and no conclusions are reached in respect of those matters' for the reasons you have sensibly set out?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Is this information going to be made available to us, that information which you have just said, 'You can see'?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Mr Travers, you have already made it clear, and I think it follows, that you did not speak to people who are not employees of the LDA. Does that mean you did not speak to Mr Jasper?