Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I think the reason there has been so much correspondence on the matter with the Committee of Public Accounts is that there has been so much back-and-forth with the HSE in east Cork and the spending decisions are still completely opaque. Ultimately, east Cork will end up with no 24-hour supported bed. It might be a policy decision but it is definitely not in line with Government policy. We still do not really understand, because the HSE simply has not provided the information, what the spending decisions have been along the way in respect of those buildings. I think the hope was that the HSE might answer the Committee of Public Accounts if it would not answer anybody else.