Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

In response to the September 2013 general issue of the Department's documented pay policy to all section 38 agencies, I have no doubt that St. John of God, along with others, submitted business cases to seek regularisation. There would have been an output of that process, but I do not have that output with me. In December 2016, our national HR division also wrote to all section 39 bodies reminding them of the pay policy and outlining a process by which any residual regularisation issues should be proposed in a business case format. I have no doubt that St. John of God made a submission. Whatever it included in those submissions is what it has told the HSE.