Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to mention the work programme. An issue has been rumbling along in the background for a long time which has surfaced again in the past 24 hours. I refer to Positive Action, a group funded by the HSE, which has come to the public's attention in a very obvious way for the use of public money in a way which has been found to be utterly unacceptable to an internal audit report commissioned by the HSE. These are very serious money and Government issues. Everybody is probably aware of them so I will not go through them. I would have thought we could invite Positive Action to come in and explain to us what happened to at least €2.3 million which it got from the HSE.