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

We need to see the full picture because what we see here is not just something that happened by accident. My reading of the situation is that this was a very calculated and considered rebuff of any kind of standards on the part of Console. I believe the HSE and the Department of Health have been caught with their pants down and were asleep at the wheel.

We have heard a lot about oversight, but I want to turn to the grant aid and service level agreements. On these, I am struck by the fact that there are nominated persons and authorised signatories. Will Mr. O'Brien tell us, for the purposes of these agreements, the function of the nominated person?