Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Those accounts are readily available. That company received €2 million in lottery funds in 2011, which is the latest accounts I have, and €1.9 million in 2010. On top of that, the accounts state that a surplus of €14 million is carried forward at the end of 2011. I presume those accounts are correct because they are audited by Ernst & Young. That does not mean they are correct, but that there is a good chance they are. The accounts indicate that this is a mechanism of funding the Central Remedial Clinic, given that the group is called the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic. I cannot see the channel but I can see there is a connection between them. The Central Remedial Clinic has a source of funding which is extremely large and to which the HSE is contributing. It is paying a salary of an extra €100,000, presumably out of that resource. I do not know if it has any others. There is another company called Central Remedial Clinic Medical Devices Limited. It is a rather strange company too. There is a huge overlap of directors in these three companies. It is not defensible that a company which has a funding source that appears to have €14 million in the bank is making cutbacks. What does the witness think?