Mr. Bernard Gloster:

The regional executive officer in Naas has asked internal audit to look at an issue that was raised with her in correspondence. Given the way the CHI report appeared in The Sunday Times, it is not unusual that we would start to see sequentially people starting to express concern. There is concern about how NTPF funding was used or governed by Naas hospital. An internal audit will look at that. One of the reasons I stayed focused on the nationwide survey was that if I did not do that and produce the report the Minister published last night, we could sequentially go through every hospital in Ireland and have to audit to give assurance which would not be a productive way to deal with what fundamentally appears to me to be a systemic issue, albeit very different in every hospital.