Ms Fiona Brady:

No, it was not. I met Ms Coyle and we had several conversations about this. We both decided that there would not be a knee-jerk reaction to how the disclosure was made. I agreed to go back to the NTPF and look at a year's invoices. We picked 2023 because that was post Covid and post cyberattack. It was the first full year back for commissioning and the health service was fully operational. We reviewed one year's invoices and I sent them to Ms Coyle. She reviewed them and then confirmed to us that, in fact, we had been invoiced for activity that went on in core hours. We did not take it lightly. We were concerned and we brought it to the board. We did continue outsourcing and we did continue the validation process as well. Insourcing is just a tiny part of what we do for Beaumont Hospital.