Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I am asking Mr. O'Brien. What I have read from his answer is, "No, we are not acknowledging that this was because we underfunded the service. That is because we decided to take a particular review of a case." I put it to him that clearly, it was an acknowledgement that it was an underfunding of the service because it was not like any other service. It had a very special person in its care who needed very special attention at a high cost.

While I also want to know the specific cost for the Deloitte report because I have forgotten the figure, I shall finish with a specific question. Is that not a clear acknowledgement that the service had been underfunded, it had been left to care for Grace without proper funding from the Health Service Executive and that is why the HSE gave that portion in the settlement?