Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Exactly, yes. I do not take from anything which any of the other Deputies have said. There might be a piece of work here for us in the whole area of disability services. However, in very discreet questioning to the HSE, we need to ask what happened in this case. Essentially, the HSE adopted the private appointment of an individual as their private appointment and paid the bill for that. The question is, where was the funding for that? Second, in how many other cases has the HSE paid for the private assessment of individual patients? Third, were there any criteria around why that was done, as Deputy Colm Burke said? Why was it done, and what were the criteria in terms of length of time, available service etc.?