David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)

Mr. Gloster is right to acknowledge that there are a lot of consultants and staff doing good work. We all have to reiterate that because there is a lot of excellent service provided by CHI, but there are also a lot of failures. According to the response I received yesterday to one of my parliamentary questions, it is going to be next year before we see any sight of the Nayagam report, if we see it at all. We had the HIQA report into the unauthorised use of springs into children with scoliosis. We have the hip dysplasia issue, which is still being resolved, and parents are still seeking answers in relation to that. We have an unpublished report that raised concerns about oncology. There have also been failures in urology services, which have affected children with spina bifida and scoliosis. We also have the Dickson report, which remains unpublished. CHI is refusing to publish any of these reports.

Given all of that and the fact that a decision has now been taken to essentially disband the board, was CHI a failure from a governance perspective?