Mr. Tadhg Daly:

Clearly, the sector is, as I said earlier, the most highly regulated, if taken from a standards point of view, but it is also regulated from a price point of view. The National Treatment Purchase Fund sets the fees and the fees, in turn, dictate the pay scales within the sector. We would love nothing better in the morning than to be on the same rates as the HSE but the State is not providing that level, despite the fact the fair deal is supposed to be a level playing field.