Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

This relates to a national contract which was put in place for service contracts for imaging equipment. This is the HSE using its bulk capacity, so it is a positive development. Several hospitals had effectively not paid their share of the bill. Essentially, we are funding it. They are delaying in providing the money to us.

As chief financial officer, I have instructed this year that they will either pay us by the end of the year or we will take it out of their cash allocations.