Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I will get my list out. We spoke about the Mater hospital this morning. It has presented us with challenges. It would say that they are legitimate challenges. I do not want to be unfair and misrepresent the hospital. I do not believe they are legitimate challenges because there has never been a case where the HSE did not fund the hospitals to pay their cash bills in a year. The State always pays its bills. I believe that some of the approaches to the service agreements by some of the organisations have been pedantic. I do not accept that they need go as far into the year unsigned. I have just been told that the Mater signed in the past 24 hours. This is October. To me, signing an agreement in October for a year in which ten months have already elapsed is not an agreement.