Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Public Accounts Committee

HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion

12:00 pm

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

As I see it, the onus and legal responsibility rested with the HSE. That is my understanding. I refer the delegates to the letter of apology. It is signed by Ms Colley. One of the matters for which there is an apology is an absence of the necessary protocols and arrangements to support the placement in foster families of vulnerable children and adults with a disability. The HSE concedes, correctly, that that is its job. The attempts in respect of Ann, based on the controversy that has arisen over her ongoing placement and the discovery made, to make the family culpable are really unfair. They are dishonourable and inaccurate. I would like the delegation to correct the record.

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