John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The board is aware that we require the set of questions that were unanswered at the last meeting to be answered. Alongside that, we are dealing with the payments made by the HSE to Rehab under section 39 of the Health Act 2004, the operation of the charities lottery scheme, payments to Rehab from the Vote of the Department of Justice and Equality, payments made by SOLAS to Rehab for the provision of special and vocational training, and payments made by other Departments to companies of the Rehab Group. This generally is the agenda of items the committee will be discussing. The total amount of money per year going to Rehab is approximately €90 million when one adds together all these figures. It is a substantial amount of money and, frankly, I expect Rehab to appear before the committee and to answer all the questions that will be put to its representatives. Rehab is on notice of that and the committee should simply proceed on the understanding that it will deal with this matter next Thursday with the people it has invited before it.