An investigation was initiated by the Blood Transfusion Service Board into the relationship between an employee and a drug company, the tribunal was told.
The board's present deputy medical director, Dr Emer Lawlor, said the person into whom the investigation was conducted was now dead, as far as she knew. She did not disclose the person's name and said she did not know the outcome of the investigation.
Asked by counsel for the Irish Haemophilia Society, Mr John Trainor SC, about who would have an investigation report, Dr Lawlor suggested the board's chief executive officer at the time, Mr Ted Keyes, might be able to help.
Counsel had earlier suggested there was a close relationship between the board's director at the time, Dr Jack O'Riordan, and Travenol Laboratories Ltd. A letter from the company to Dr O'Riordan in January 1983 suggested they could have "a quiet meeting somewhere" and a second, in June 1983, from Dr O'Riordan to Travenol thanked the company for picking up a diploma from Cambridge on his "behalf".
Dr Lawlor said it possibly had a very innocent explanation.