Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Following on from that, this went on unabated for nearly 12 years. Looking at it, it was like a lucky dip in terms of dipping in for various items such as foreign travel and unaccountable stuff. I find the accounts produced - Mizars were the accountants - for the type of money that was going through this every year extraordinary. For instance, in 2011, nearly €700,000 went through it in that year. Why did the people involved not look for an audit to be carried out? There was no audit carried out. If Mr. O'Flynn reads the accountants' report from Mizars, he will see that it states that they carried out a review but the ordinary person will ask why this was allowed to continue unabated. Mr. Merrigan's salary was paid by SIPTU. Did he receive any salary from the national health and local authority levy fund?