Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)

I am sure it is not unique, for example, for items to be available in a hospital and the front-line people do not think necessarily where they come from. They take whatever equipment, plasters or whatever the different devices are. At that level, there would not be an expectation for them to be aware of it. As you start to come up the line, at some point, somebody must have been managing the total drawdown of all products or some version of a delivery docket to say a certain number were received and it was therefore appropriate to pay a particular amount for them.

You would wonder whether, if only a certain number are drawn down, the contract would allow for non-used items to be drawn down in further quarters.