Mr. Tony O'Brien:

When an organisation is dependent on funding both from us and from other sources to provide a range of services, we have to be cognisant of what happens to the latter sources. The most significant example I can give goes back to where this all began, namely, the Central Remedial Clinic, which was in the eye of the storm in respect of this issue three years ago. The revelations about financial arrangements caused a total collapse in private and voluntary funding to the CRC. We were careful to rehabilitate the CRC as a voluntary body capable of having the confidence of service users. That has occurred here and our aim in dealing with this includes, first of all, preserving and, where possible, improving the services to service users of St. John of God, who are at the heart of our concern. Second, we try to bring any organisation we fund which is not currently in compliance with public pay policy fully into compliance. The other thing we are doing is trying to ensure sustainability by looking at the organisation in the round, for which a process is already in play and is examining the issues. We cannot divorce our attitude to the totality of a service from the issues of concern about how decisions are made at the highest level in an organisation.