Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)
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Okay. I am coming to a close. I want to ask Mr. Nugent one question in response to what he has just said. There is no way you are an independent company. You get €16 million a year, or around that, for the past few years, which is by far the majority of your funding, from the State. That puts you under an obligation to the taxpayer. It puts you under an obligation not to ignore the Government or the taxpayer where they are instructing you about guidelines. It seems to me that you have given two fingers to the HSE - which many of us would like to do on lots of issues, I must say - and in order to bypass it, you have gone to another source of funds, although the donors never intended that money to go to Mr. Kiely and others, either in their pension pots or in the form of pay. I think Mr. Nugent and anybody involved in this should consider tendering their resignation. Would you do that, please?