Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The board is also responsible - it is in the note on page 2 - for safeguarding the assets of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. How do the members of the board feel about having inherited assets of €40 million and coming back to us with €35 million worth of them gone at the end of 2013? How does that represent safeguarding assets? We all know there is a write-down.

Mr. Pollock said in his opening statement that the board had a duty to safeguard assets, but the accounts indicate that €35 million of the assets being safeguarded are no longer assets. I know that is not the witnesses' fault, but the palaver in Mr. Pollock's opening statement does not sit well with writing off €35 million in assets.