Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is established. Therefore, when it comes to the organisations - and a huge number of them are funded - there are various ways of analysing their performance and of looking under the hood at what they are doing. For instance, outside of the actual financial auditing, which is a big strand that should net issues, were the characters in question, the people who are heading up many of these organisations or in key roles, checked? Would they have been checked out by the HSE? Would the HSE have looked at all these organisations, ensuring that the people who are running them did not have track records over which there are questions, or did not have issues in the past such as pretending they were people they were not, or anything like that? I ask in general terms. Does the HSE have a track record of checking out the people behind many of these organisations in general?