Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Tony O'Brien, the head of the HSE, was asked this morning on the "Today with Sean O'Rourke" show about his dismissal of the concerns of Dr. David Gibbons. Mr. O'Brien said he had not dismissed those concerns and that they were taken up in the contract before it was awarded to Quest Diagnostics in the US. Is the Minister happy that is the case? I know we are not going to see the contract given sensitivity and commercial secrecy, etc. Even if I asked for it, I am never going to see it. However, why did Mr. O'Brien then allow Dr. David Gibbons and several renowned scientists resign as result of him ignoring them? Why did he tell us that he wrote it into the contract before it was awarded?

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