Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health

Mr. Robert Watt:

I will check.

According to the report:

The discloser stated that most of these bundles involved the most vulnerable and needy people of the State, and the object was to keep those people, the Government, and the Dáil, as well as the systems for accountability, in the dark. The discloser stated that of these bundles, one was estimated to have liabilities of up to €7 billion.

I guess "bundles" refers to legal cases. I do not think there was any information which supported that allegation. The senior counsel, in his conclusions, did not state that there was evidence purporting to support that.