Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)

It is bizarre that the HSE, out of an abundance of caution, did the right thing, which was to refer this matter to the Garda for a determination, but CHI took it upon itself to do the Garda's work for it and decide the matter did not meet the threshold for investigation. Even after this came out and blew up publicly, CHI has still held that view. That does not attest to the new culture of transparency that was outlined on multiple occasions in Ms Nugent's opening statement. In fact, it does quite the opposite. I ask Ms Nugent to answer "Yes" or "No" to the following question. Does she still believe that the potential misuse of public funds does not merit a Garda investigation?