Mr. Peadar Ó Scanaill:

As I said, we got various legal advices on section 54. There is no doubt that the most recent advice reiterates the issue of ownership. Who can buy and sell really is not our responsibility. As to how many practices were bought at this time, because we have genuinely never known who owned a practice and the Act does not describe a practice, we do not have a handle on the matter. We do not ask anyone who owns the practice. The issue is who controls and runs a practice, an issue Deputy Penrose mentioned. The important question is how come or why that suddenly disappeared and that is where our remit comes in.