Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is helpful because as the Chairman and Deputy O'Donnell stated that many of the section 38 agencies provide vital services and many of them depend on significant fund-raising, but we have had weeks of sweetshop funds and car parking fees going to CEOs and officials. I am trying to seek clarity on how a privately funded allowance is defined. Dr. Smith is telling me in the case of the National Maternity Hospital, to take a high-profile example, she asked the hospital to explain and the hospital defined it as such and gave the information. Is there necessarily a correlation that money for a privately funded allowance is not generated from private patients and the treatment of private patients in hospital?