Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

I am a layman myself. In simple terms, the implication of the relationship is that if a body is given €100 to mind for a patient, then the obligation on that body is to keep the €100 safe and return €100 to the patient. Let us consider what happened in reality. At the time more than 170 local units were in place. The health boards used any interest they earned on that money to partly defray the cost of providing the patient private property service. We could argue whether that is right or wrong-----