Mr. Tony O'Brien:

I am going on to that. After that, St. John of God representatives gave us written assurance - and we have agreed to provide this correspondence - that they had addressed the issue of non-compliance. We then went through that massive health sector wide pay compliance issue. As part of our general controls following the establishment of the compliance unit, we had decided to go through each organisation sequentially and it just happens that that process is under way in St. John of God. What is now urgent is that the suggestion has come out into the public domain, not having been disclosed to us, that 14 persons received substantial lump sum payments to buy out their non-compliant pay.

"Buy out" may not be the right term. There are instances in which buy outs can be approved in certain circumstances. If someone has got ten years to go, they might buy out one or two years. In this instance, it appears the full ten years may have been paid out. This is the subject of the review. The reason it is urgent is that it is one of the organisations that declared itself compliant some time ago. It has brought to our attention only one issue of non-compliance, which was not related to these 14 people. That is why I am having an urgent review now. It is nothing to do with what happened in 2013, although it obviously relates to 2013 because it may be that the assurances given to us in 2013 were not whole and complete.