Clerk to the Committee:

We have been granted compellability but the issue that is clouding it is that a Garda file was opened a number of years ago because when the internal audit unit of the HSE first raised the issue there was a concern that money was missing. It has subsequently been established, and the Comptroller and Auditor General's report would have confirmed this, that no issue arises in regard to missing funds. Everything was accounted for but when we inquired of the Garda Síochána approximately one year ago, it had not closed the file. That is one of the issues about which he is concerned.