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:

The table as it stands remains accurate but I would make the following point; I was asked to come in to the committee on the Friday and I came in on the Tuesday. Various pieces of information were pulled together at relatively short notice at my request so as to be able to interact with the committee. It was quite a frenetic time because the general election was taking place. To be honest, normally I would not have been prepared to come in at such short notice because I would not be as well briefed as I would wish to be. Had I the opportunity to spend more time, it is undoubtedly the case I would have given the committee more information which might have given wider context to that table. The table as it stands is not inaccurate but it perhaps is not the entire story which I if had had more time to prepare I would have had more information and I would have given the committee more information.