David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Hang on one second now, because the Chairman gave his view. I do not see the report as independent. There are questions that need to be answered about how the HSE interacts with this committee in terms of the evidence it gives and whether it is accurate. We must hold it to account if we believe it is not accurate, and there is every indication it was inaccurate, so we have a responsibility to follow it up. We cannot just bookend it and state that is it because there is a commission of investigation. That commission of investigation is dealing with all sorts of other issues and may not deal with the issues we are dealing with. It will deal with its issues and we will deal with our issues, and our issues are how organisations interact with us. The HSE has interacted with us on this issue for a long time, it has not been to our satisfaction, and we still have not resolved this issue. With respect to the High Court, I do not believe the service providers had to put that in the letter, because they were dealing specifically with what was said at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts, what subsequently happened and what is in the report. It has dealt with that. Nobody is contesting now whether the €600,000 was due. It is not in question. The question is whether the organisation was targeted or not.