Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I accept that and, if possible, I withdraw that comment from the record.

This is an extremely serious issue overall. If one considers the questions I will put to the HSE later, it is an amazingly convoluted method for channelling money. It goes through the midlands health board, from the office of health management, via the health board instructions into the national health and pension forum, into the levy fund. It is so convoluted that it is almost impossible to trace. As the report states, it is difficult to see who is responsible, what the oversight is and so on. On the recipient's side there is a levy fund set up that is off books, not overseen by anybody, difficult to trace and not accounted for. On both sides of the equation there is an extremely convoluted and hidden funding path. If it had happened on one side one could accept it but if it happened on both sides it is hard to believe that there was not a deliberate attempt to create a fund that would be off-books from both sides. What is SIPTU's opinion of that?