Ms Laura Keane:

I can understand that. RehabCare has its contract with the HSE to deliver the services and it has provided all the information to the HSE as part of that. A staffing template was introduced this year to provide salaries and all of the rest. As part of our compliance, as part of my responsibilities in complying with legislation and in complying with my obligations under the contract of RehabCare, as data controller for RehabCare and in terms of disclosing salaries - as it is a private entity we must consider the whole area of data protection legislation - I sought advice from the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in relation to that. It advised that there were a certain number of parameters by which I had to abide as a data controller. I have done my best to provide the information the HSE required as part of that while also fulfilling my obligations and ensuring I do not break the law or the data protection issues around the staff.