Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will certainly do that. Obviously there is a strong difference of opinion between the HSE and the service provider. I have a concern as to whether the Deloitte report could be classed as independent. We have received a report that was paid for by the HSE to answer a question that the service provider says was not the question that needed to be asked. Notwithstanding that, the report includes tables and data that were simply presented by the HSE.

My understanding is that there was also a slimmed-down version of this that was a draft and got lost in the ether somewhere. It is very similar to what was being requested of us when we were doing reports. A draft report is done. It must go to the person who is the payer. They have an influence and a say. Drafts go over and back. The final product ends up being not truly independent but yet it is presented to us as the independent analysis. How independent is it? I want the HSE to come back in because it all arises from comments made by Mr. Healy of the HSE, who has not been here. He was the one who made the comment originally about the costs and he needs to come before us. There was a table in the earlier draft that did answer the question for the service providers.

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