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Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: For me, that is not at all clear. It is the people who actually made the decision. I was not on the Committee of Public Accounts at that point and Mr. O'Brien is trying to go back in retrospect.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. O'Brien has come back to us with clarifications this week and has explained why he did not identify one of the individuals as still working within the public service. He relied on the information within the system, which is not a reliable mechanism given that, as he told us, a different staff number is allocated each time somebody has a new engagement. Is the system capable of searching...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Was that a data protection issue?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is a key issue to identify the individuals, particularly if, had they been identified, HR disciplinary action would have followed. Each of the individuals named would have been given a copy of those reports prior to their publication. I presume it is the case that they would have had sight of the report.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: In respect of best practice in this matter, the production of the reports has identified very significant shortcomings. It seems that those significant shortcomings were then put into cold storage, by virtue of the fact that there was a Garda investigation, of which they were not the subject, although they may well have been an ancillary part. That prevented the HSE from taking the...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If there is a failure, there is a prospect of that failure continuing into other cases, for example.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to return to the questions regarding disciplinary action. Mr. O'Brien has said he looked into the whites of their eyes and reckoned it had been a monumental cock-up. To whom was he referring? I am not asking him to name people.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Was any disciplinary action taken against the ten or 11 people who would have been the decision-makers in the provision of services for Grace? Obviously, she was almost tortured over a protracted period.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Was there disciplinary action?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The HSE identified all of those people and potentially there will be disciplinary action.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I understand there is a process.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If they were all identified, could they not have been asked at the time if they were still working in the public service or Tusla? There was an exhaustive search through the payroll system. Would it not have been better just to ask people directly?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will move on. I have a question about the budget for the voluntary provider. The voluntary provider disputed the figures. I presume the dispute was not due to them getting too much but that they did not get enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Would there have been significant additional costs?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Would that have made the provider being viable in providing the services an issue?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It would matter very significantly because Mr. O'Brien would not want there to be continued failures where there has been a demonstrated history of failures. By not providing adequate resources to the people who are directly responsible, there is the potential of failures continuing. That would be completely unacceptable so I presume Mr. O'Brien looked at that.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I presume that in a real-time situation, Mr. O'Brien would not have wanted a situation to continue in which inadequate funding was provided to look after someone who was going to be the subject of a public inquiry. Has anything happened in the interim to make sure the provider has adequate resources?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. O'Brien clarified that he changed the system of procurement and that there is now a panel. Is anything other than financial issues included by the panel? I presume the suitability of people and groups is considered. Are potential conflicts of interest included? The Resilience Ireland report highlighted a potential conflict of interest with an individual who was a former HSE employee...