Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 15 July 2016
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Financial Statement 2015
10:00 am
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source
It is quite obvious there will be various different stages of the Committee of Public Accounts looking at aspects of this into the future, given the scale of it. We have asked for various documentation. I have no doubt the witnesses will supply that. I am not suggesting anything, but it would be helpful as a group, and there is a serious group here, if collectively as a management team - I say this to the Department of Health as well - they could forensically go back through documentation in their organisations and in the Department, and bring to our attention any documentation, correspondence, e-mails, references that they feel it is worthy for this committee to have relating to us dealing with this subject matter. In other words, we will give a pass as regards a period of time to go and find and give us whatever information. In this period of time we cannot ask for every single piece. We found out about letters today that we did not know about. There may be other documentation that we will not even ask about because we do not know about them. Would the witness and those in the Department please forensically look and then bring it to our attention? Subsequently, if it is not brought to our attention, we would have questions.
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