Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming in this week to speak to us. I have a number of questions. What happened to spark the establishment of the additional board in May 2017? Ms Conroy just spoke about April 2017 when the overruns became apparent. I spent a lot of time reading the opening statements last night. It took me a lot of time to work out. Maybe it is not fair to say but it strikes me that it dawned on the witnesses in April 2017 that things were not going right, that the board was not fit for purpose, so instead of discharging the board, they decided to create another layer, which is typical of the HSE, to my mind. It added another layer on top. Can anyone tell me what happened? Was there a report? Was there an investigation? Was there anything internal that led to the establishment of a new board in 2017?