It is appropriate that it is the Minister who requires the HSE to provide the information to the review group because it is effectively an agent of the Minister. When such information is provided to it, it can use the information in the same way as the Minister can without any need to revert to the Minister for approval. Accordingly, there is no question of the Minister being able to tell the review group how to use the files or otherwise dictate how it does its work.

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