Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I will go back to the earlier discussion about overpayments at Beaumont Hospital. I was just able to check. The small number of large payments were overpayments that were incurred in the period 2019 to 2021. I drew attention to those previously in the 2020 audit certification. Our concern in 2022 was that there was again a significant jump in the amount of overpayments. The notes I have indicate there were 135 overpayments in 2022 to a total of €288,000. That is approximately €2,300 per case. The four large cases I mentioned were in an earlier period. The hospital will certainly be able to give further detail in relation to that.