Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept the point. I am raising this not to bamboozle the committee but to illustrate that the HSE had plenty of internal correspondence to identify, without a shadow of doubt, that it was dealing with a deeply problematic situation. It might be helpful if the committee asked the HSE to provide all of the correspondence between the HSE and Console, including the internal e-mails, memoranda and so forth. Much of this has been made available in respect of a previous freedom of information request. It is only when committee members see the full paper trail alongside the audit, on which we are limited in our commentary, that we can start to make a judgment as to whether people were on their game and doing their jobs, to put it bluntly.