Chairman:

I am surprised to hear that this issue was flagged ten years ago. It is totally unacceptable that it has been indicated in the communication to this committee that it will take another four years to resolve. The samples taken by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General showed a non-compliance rate of 49% in 2016 and 36% in 2017. For any public organisation, that is wholly unacceptable. We need to bring in the HSE on this issue. I call Deputy Matt Carthy.