Dr. Geraldine Smith:

The agencies on 46% are the Brothers of Charity in Clare, Waterford, Galway and Roscommon. Carriglea contributed 27%. In Kare it ranges from 6% to 15%, depending on the grade. In the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary it ranges from 17% to 28%. In Sunbeam House it is 12%. Within that there are some staff for whom we have not been advised of the rate of contributions. In discussions I had with some of the agencies it was emphasised to me that various schemes, having known they were contributing to private schemes, had been in discussions with the Department on admittance to the public schemes. Where agencies were not admitted, they kept up the private schemes, as they would be obliged to do as employers.