Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Does Mr. O'Brien agree the whistleblowers in this case seem to be patriots in the best sense of that word and in a way we often do not use it in Ireland, which is to mean standing up for what is best in one's community? In the early 1990s, whistleblowers seem to have made their mark, but it just was not fully carried through. It would have saved this State huge amounts of money if people had listened to whistleblowers in these matters. If we count the investigation in the early 1990s, the two most recent investigations and the examination that is now taking place of what has been done already, we are talking about four investigations. How much has all of that cost the HSE and, by extension, the State?