David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I find all of this absolutely and profoundly shocking. CHI can say what it wants regarding how this report came about. It is shocking that the report has not been published. It is shocking, and not only in the context of this issue, because you cannot look at it in isolation. You have to look at all the children who had surgeries carried out unnecessarily.

There are children, some of them who are in the Public Gallery, who have been waiting for years. They are so-called "orphan children", as they were described, who received suboptimal care and whose parents have been asking for reports they know exist but are not being given. There are parents who were not informed of risks and issues identified in regard to oncology, urology and orthopaedics. There are differences within the HSE as to whether that report should have been referred to An Garda Síochána. There are differences, in that the HSE is categorical that it did not receive the report even though CHI states it did. I do not accept that there is a cultural shift, as far as I can see, given all of that. To say Ms Nugent has a lot of work to do is an understatement. I am concerned that the person who was in the lead position when all of this was happening is also the person who now is a lead in transitioning to the children's hospital. It is absolutely ridiculous and will anger the public. It will certainly anger the parents of those children.

I have one final question for the clinical director.