Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Is it a substantive post as opposed to a post within the HSE? The staff in the Department, the HSE and the NTPF are closely connected. Officials who worked for the HSE now work for the NTPF and there is interchangeability. The reply to the question is, "the performance will be monitored". Is the Minister satisfied that there is robust monitoring of the NTPF by the NTPF itself, which is what the reply suggests, or does another entity, body or committee assess whether the fund is providing value for money?