Ms Mary Day:

There is no additional percentage. The percentage that is paid from the CRC is the employer's contribution. I refer the Deputy to the letter from the Department of Health in 1979, which specifically states that the Mater hospital was directed by the Minister for Health to set up this scheme and that the arrangements entailed that the salaries of the staff members, plus 10% of salaries to meet superannuation costs, would be recouped annually from the CRC. The letter reiterates that the ordinary 5% superannuation contribution of the staff, plus the 10% of salaries referred to earlier, would be credited to the voluntary hospital superannuation scheme in the Mater hospital accounts.