David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to come back to the issue of procurement, though I will not go over the issue of contracts being destroyed. I raised this issue because Dr. Scally found that there were problems with procurement. On page 77 of the Scally report, under a section on the analysis of key issues, he states that there appears to have been an overemphasis on obtaining the lowest cost from suppliers. Does that mean that, when outsourcing this, the HSE was more concerned with costs than patient safety and quality of treatment? I asked Mr. McCallion earlier if he supported the Scally report and what is contained in it. Dr Scally goes on to state that there was not an equivalent emphasis on other quality and service-level measures. Does the HSE accept that?