Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

I wrote to the NTPF, and it was not to single it out as I wrote to all State bodies and entities. It has been a very fruitful exercise. Essentially, many of the State bodies have not been publishing their data, the NTPF included. The data may be there but it has not been published on the NTPF website. I appreciate the NTPF coming back and emailing me to commit to publishing this data, which is very important. Where I am going with my question is as follows. Based on prompt payment data, about €345 million may have been spent within the NTPF over the last few years. I am asking this because if no purchase order was published, it leads me to believe one of two things. Either all of the sums or all of the individual payments are less than €20,000, so they fall outside the remit, or else they are just not being published.

Can the NTPF representatives outline who the largest recipients of the NTPF were? I understand from earlier questioning that it would be hospitals. Is it possible for CHI to provide us with a list, from largest to smallest, of the people who were paid out?