Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At this stage, as it is very late in the afternoon, on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank all our witnesses from the HSE, the Department of Health, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Comptroller and Auditor General for having participated in the meeting and for the material they supplied to the committee. We will have further meetings with the HSE. Of that there is no doubt. I want to put on the record that no decision has yet been made by this committee on the publication of any documents that we have received in respect of this process. We will discuss that in private session, but I just wanted to be clear on that. Mr. O'Brien has made it clear in correspondence submitted to the committee, although the point was made more subtly earlier, that the HSE does not normally publish the internal audit report on its website. It supplies them on the basis of one-by-one requests under freedom of information. It does not publish them as a matter of course.