Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation

9:00 am

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

In 2015, 2016 and perhaps 2017 at many meetings of this committee we heard about discussions on a media strategy and disclosures. From our perspective, in terms of governance and procurement, what was most alarming about the Scally report was the finding that much of the original proposal material had been destroyed in 2017 and that it was in line with policy that after a particular timeframe documents were destroyed. Given that in 2015-16 the HSE and the Department would have known about the problems in this area, why were the documents destroyed? Surely, the system would have kicked in to protect documents. Will one of the witnesses explain why procurement documents were destroyed in 2017? I do not understand how that was allowed to happen. Somebody made the decision to allow it to happen or somebody did not have his or her eye on the ball. For whatever reason, the documents were destroyed. I ask Mr. McCallion to answer the question.

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