Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

"Raid" was not the proper word to use. Gardaí would be used to perform a raid; I understand that.

With regard to the non-co-operation by the CEO of Console, the chairperson and the external auditor, I presume Console hires an external auditor as a consultant to perform its audits, as most private businesses do every year, and then to give the books over to the HSE for scrutiny. Are there questions marks from this external auditor? I do not know who it is. I presume it was done in a private capacity. From what I read in the HSE report, those auditors seem to have ignored the HSE requests for information and took a long time to answer. They told the HSE they were too busy to meet for two months. I find it strange that a consultancy, whose good name in the profession as an auditor it would try to keep, would refuse to meet the HSE for two months while the HSE was the paymaster of the charity's funding.