Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I propose that, in addition to sending the correspondence, we send a transcript of this part of our meeting in order that the Deputy's views are conveyed directly to the commission. We will send the transcript when it is received in the coming days. We have stated several times that none of the members accepts that this was an independent report. It was a report commissioned and paid for by the Health Service Executive, which also set its terms of reference. The HSE simply outsourced a project to Deloitte. No one on this committee would suggest it was independent. It was carried out on behalf of the HSE, rather than being independent of the HSE.