Ms Emily O'Reilly:

In it he states he wishes to advise that the HSE is accepting our recommendations in full and Greg Price, director of advocacy, will forward an implementation plan to us in the next two weeks. He further thanks us for the report, for the thoroughness of our investigation and so on. I also have a letter from the Secretary General of the Department stating that the recommendations, if implemented as outlined, would create liabilities that the State could not afford. He states that the Department will look into this and is reviewing all of this but that in the current financial environment this would prove very challenging to achieve and he can give no assurances in this regard, and that is a reference to meeting the requirements of the Equal Status Acts. In other words, the HSE has accepted our recommendations on the motorised transport grant. It is looking at about a dozen other cases in a particular area.