John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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With regard to Deputy O'Donnell's point about this news damaging the morale of those who are fund-raising or within hospitals on the front line, I raise a question that came about in correspondence.

There was a medical superintendent in one of these section 38 hospitals, and now that person has two titles and a top-up. For some, if not all, of the years that he or she held this position, the salary was topped up by way of fund-raising. The correspondent then goes on to make the complaint that the CEO, who had retired, is now back employed on a substantial sum per annum for six days a month. It is rumoured to be a considerable amount of money for those six days. In the HSE's examination of the issue, does it dig so deep as to come across issues such as this? Does it probe them about other matters of governance that might concern anybody? Would something like this be revealed to the HSE?