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

Following on from that, I revert to the Grant Thornton report. It cost €76,000 and was paid for by SIPTU, the cost of which obviously would come out of its ordinary members' contributions. If that cost €200 per hour, which would be a relatively high charge, by my estimation that is approximately three months' work, which is a considerable amount of work on a report. I cannot understand how SIPTU paid for the report. Did it agree it would only have sight of the report or did SIPTU then seek an actual copy of the report? Am I not correct in stating that Mr. Merrigan ultimately is accountable to SIPTU? Was the structure that was set up a trustee structure? It looks to me to be a kind of vehicle that has no structure. Who were the trustees of this national health and local authority levy fund? The accounts that were produced by Mazars make no reference to trustees or to the type of structure in place. It appears to be somewhat like cloud computing, in that it is up there in the cloud, drifting away, and no one knows exactly what it is doing, bar Mr. Merrigan and Mr. Kelly. Mr. O'Flynn should indicate precisely whether there were trustees or what was the structure?