The company ordered the accountants to only outline the losses that could be proved. "Iarnrod Eireann is portrayed as rife with backhanders, collusion and fraud ... Three people out of a staff of 11,300 hardly warrants headlines of backhanders. It is grossly untrue and unfair to workers. The European Commission this year has said that procedures are excellent and monitoring good. There is one credit card in CIE, and two credit cards in Irish Rail. The reason we took on Baker Tilly was to see if our systems were robust enough." The committee was told that in 2005, an internal unit set up to establish where money could be saved became concerned about a number of issues at the company's North Wall site in Dublin. Full Article at Irish Independent