Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Okay, not to his knowledge.

I now wish to turn our attention to correspondence given to us during the break. The correspondence is between Mr. David Walsh, Regional Director of Performance and Integration in the HSE, Dublin-Mid-Leinster, who is based in County Kildare, and Mr. Nicholas C. Jermyn, group chief executive of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group Limited. The correspondence is in response to the meeting which Mr. O'Brien indicated had occurred. Mr. Walsh's letter refers to a meeting on 18 December regarding compliance with health sector pay policy. He wishes to confirm that St. Vincent's is compliant with this pay policy based on its interpretation of same and legal advice received. I am presuming and hoping that in the circular issued on 27 September 2013, to which both gentlemen have referred, the guidelines set down are absolutely watertight, that there is now no ambiguity whatsoever and that both the Department of Health and the HSE have not just their own insights into this matter but have received legal advice and legal assurances to that effect.

Will Mr. O'Brien respond to that in the first instance?