Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree. I do not want to be sensationalist but the response I got was just a little bit silent in the sense that it said we are not renting the property and we engage X company to look after this person. If the specific needs demand such a high amount of money then so be it, but it was communicated to me that an obscene rent was being paid for the property and that the taxpayer was funding it, perhaps through the section 39 organisation. If we are, we are crazy, because on a ten-year lease that is €6 million and I am sure we could build ten facilities that we would own.