Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 June 2017
Public Accounts Committee
HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I have two questions on two separate issues. The first relates to the last time Mr. O'Brien was before the committee. At the time there was a conversation about the freedom of information request from certain journalists. Specifically, RTE journalists tabled extensive FOI requests. Mr. O'Brien said in his response that if RTE had made a more comprehensive request in respect of local interaction between the HSE and the Garda at the time, then the response RTE would have received would have been different. It seems that RTE did make such a request but that the HSE wrote back to RTE stating that the broadcaster had to limit the scope of the questions. Is Mr. O'Brien aware of that? If that is the case, does Mr. O'Brien need to correct the record of the Committee of Public Accounts?
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