Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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I am staggered that Dr. McLoughlin only became aware of this issue in May 2012 because, according to my information, between February and October 2011 the Department of Health wrote to the HR department of the HSE on five occasions to establish the level of compliance by section 38 agencies. The HSE replied only to two of the five letters. Surely, alarm bells should have been going off. Why was the Department of Health not more proactive in getting replies from the HSE? Why was the HSE not responding to these letters?