Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin:

I wish to make it clear that is one of the reasons we presented the policy of 27 September to deal with any issues of that nature. What I want to be clear about is that I could find no evidence in the Department of Health of what was suggested in the internal audit report. It would not have been the practice for the officials of the Department to engage in informal or unofficial approvals. That would not have been what I would have understood from my officials. I asked senior officials in the Department of Health about that.