Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise a couple of points. We need to ask whether a specific report was done. During Leader's Questions on Tuesday this week, Deputy McDonald read into the Dáil record part of a report by an independent expert appointed by Children's Health Ireland, which said of the recent issues:

These are not snagging lists but rather indicative of major generic faults and non-compliances. The longer that these issues take to get resolved, the more expensive and time consuming it will become.

The report made other points.

We should specifically ask the Department and the board whether there is a report. From this correspondence, it looks like there is an ongoing due diligence process. Children's Health Ireland is the body that will run the hospital. All the systems have to be capable of doing what they are intended to do. I am concerned that problems appear to have been identified with these systems. In our letter, we should ask whether, if there is a report, we can have it or at least the segment of it that deals with this issue. It is important that we have a "Yay" or "Nay" on the question of whether the report exists. One cannot quote from something that does not exist, so let us presume it does.