Mr. Tony O'Brien:

As I do not have the individual names provided by the hospital as per the request submitted, I am uncertain of the exact detail. However, there appear to be publicly appointed consultants whose substantive appointments are in the university hospital but who are working in most of the disciplines in the private hospital. It is important to be clear that a number of them have contracts that permit this, while a number do not. There are different categories of contract, what are known as category 2 contracts, B star contracts and so forth, but there appear to be a number of consultants with B contracts working in the private hospital. It is our view that their contracts do not permit this.