Dr. Geraldine Smith:

The hospice provided information to the effect that the CEO was in receipt of a HSE allowance to manage Blackrock hospice, which allowance was part of the CEO's contractual agreement with the hospice. It also stated that a board of director's allowance of €7,000 was paid to lead fund-raising, a second board of director's allowance was paid to another individual to manage the fund-raising and a third board of director's allowance was paid in respect of implementation of governance and policy framework, all of which it was stated come from non-public sources.