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

I have a few brief questions to follow on from what has been asked. I am talking about the Grace case in particular, what happened in that case and the length of time it took. A witness attended a private meeting of this committee a couple of weeks ago. To listen to that person give the details of what happened to a child left in that situation for 24 years in the area from which I come would bring tears from a stone. As a senior executive of the HSE, does Mr. O'Brien take responsibility for any form of neglect by the HSE or for the agency not doing its job or for not making sure this person was treated in the manner she should have been during those 24 years?