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- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: That is dreadful.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: May I make a brief point? Mr. Healy knew there was a risk to the girl and did not tell the family about the sex abuse allegations because somebody had initiated a report. It is morally disgraceful. That is the issue. That is at the centre of all this.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: What about the legal costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: How long has Ms Spillane been assistant secretary for social care?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: We now have a commission of investigation. It has been announced. Why has it come to this?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: The Minister of State stated last night that the reason they are going ahead with a commission of investigation is that they were not sure of the information that they were being given any longer, there was counter information and gaps in the information that the Department had been given.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: The Chairman was on radio last week and somebody in RTE asked whether the committee has a remit here. The Chairman replied that we did given that we looked at the value-for-money issues surrounding the commissioning of reports, but it was probably a fair question. In reality, when it comes right down to it, the Committee of Public Accounts probably should not be dealing with this; the...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Ms Spillane does know some facts.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Was Ms Spillane aware of Ann and the fact that she was in that foster home for so long? When did Ms Spillane become aware of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Did Ms Spillane check that out? Did Ms Spillane ask them about that private placement of Ann and the circumstances around it? Did Ms Spillane look into it?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Let us be clear about something. We are talking about a foster home that was a centre of sexual abuse allegations for 30 years at that point. The witness found out that there was a private placement involved here and did not query them with regard to the circumstances around it.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Ms Spillane learned then about this.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Is Ms Spillane surprised at this? I have to ask that of the Department of Health. Mr. O'Brien has made it clear that, in his opinion, and he has repeated it four or five times now in fairness, he does not have the authority within the HSE to verbalise what he would like to or what he would like to get out there. He is frustrated. The organisation is frustrated. Has the HSE contacted the...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: Does Ms Spillane have a difficulty being an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Health knowing that there is, potentially, people who have made some horrendous mistakes within the system still working in agencies like Tusla, the child protection agency? Is there any uneasiness within the Department about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: I know that. Mr. O'Brien has said that a number of times.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: As this has unfolded over the last few months and weeks, and particularly in the last week, when Ms Spillane has requested information from the HSE about the specifics, is she happy that she got the full information on every occasion? We are not, obviously. We think the information that has been dispatched to us has been selective. Is Ms Spillane happy that she and her Department have...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John Deasy: When Ms Spillane's boss - Mr. Breslin, I think - appeared before the committee the last time, we asked him about the draft recommendations that were sent by the HSE to the Department of Health about the selection of people who are commissioned to do reports. We are told publicly now that a panel will be set up. I asked the clerk about this, and I do not think we ever received confirmation...