tbap says this is false.difficulties due to a lack of external funding and poor, internal financial systems and that it responded with robust measures to improve its finances. including the complete overhaul of its financial controls and systems. tbap says there has been no personal wrongdoing by staff. the trust told the government, it had a £750,000 deficit. but an external team discovered the debt was actually 2.4 million. 900 e—mails about unpaid bills hadn't even been opened. it's a financial shambles. seamus 0ates has taken a pay cut. but why is he still running the trust? he took his eye off the ball and the government wasn't strong enough to blow the whistle on him quick enough, that's what happened. it sounds like more than weak governance, it sounds like not only someone took their eye off the ball but missed the game entirely? i am not going to defend poor financial management to that extent, but the important thing to say is that we do have the resources to intervene intensively when these things