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

I welcome Mr. O'Brien and all the other witnesses. This feels like Groundhog Day. Many of the issues we are examining today are issues the committee grappled with in the last Dáil.

I put it to Mr. O'Brien and to the officials from the Department of Health that the relationship between Console and its funders, the HSE and the Department of Health, has been dysfunctional from the beginning. Whereas for the reasons Mr. O'Brien has set out, the audit focuses on recent years, I ask him and the Department of Health officials to furnish us with a full report going back to the first tranche of funding which I think was in 2005, but perhaps one of the witnesses from the HSE or the Department of Health might correct me. This should set out in clear unambiguous language the history and pattern of non-compliance and lack of accountability by that organisation from that time to now. Can that be provided to us?