Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case

9:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Deputy Cullinane reflected upon this earlier and I did not get a chance to respond to him. If the committee wishes to have access to correspondence between any part of the HSE and Deloitte, I have no objection. The committee can frame that request to me and subject to the views of the commission, as I will only provide information if the commission does not object, the committee can have that access. What I cannot do is give the committee Deloitte's product without Deloitte's consent. Deloitte has indicated that it will consider a request from the committee. I have no objection to that request but I would suggest that Deloitte also seek clearance from the commission, which I think the committee would want it to do.