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- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Healy conceives of this high-level official apology, which are very rare, on 4 March 2015. There are ten interactions in respect of it and some activity towards the tail end of the process in December. The apology is not made, yet a report is given to this committee that an apology was made. The committee then receives the correspondence referred to earlier from the Waterford...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Or - this is even more serious - if we are to take the word of Waterford Intellectual Disability Association, there was not in fact a miscommunication; there was no communication. There was no apology expected, according to this correspondence, and none was given, and furthermore, the HSE was informed of that fact. The truth is somewhere, perhaps, in between those two positions.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. O'Brien said that, having reviewed the situation with those staff involved, "I am satisfied that it was the intention to offer a full and frank apology." Did he raise this particular piece of correspondence with the staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: How did they respond to this?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who wrote this e-mail?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I ask Ms Colley how was it so ambiguous.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. They said that they were not asked to apologise and that they did not apologise and, furthermore, that they told the HSE chief officer that no apologies were given.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can Ms Colley explain to us how her e-mail was so ambiguous?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the e-mail say an apology is to be given-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: ------or an apology will be given?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: How is that ambiguous?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I heard that it would be verbal.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Are staff - I am struggling to find a word - that absolutely incompetent that one has to take them through things like that with baby steps? I am at a loss to understand how the ambiguity arose. Ms Colley has told me it was not in a letter and it was going to be done verbally. That is hardly an earth shattering concept to take on board for somebody that the HSE has entrusted, by the way,...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: I shall ask my final question. The whistleblowers have been fairly damning in their description of the HSE. They feel that they were ignored, set aside, undermined and their professional credibility called into question. That was their experience of dealing with you. How does Mr. O'Brien respond to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Do not bring us down an alleyway.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. O'Brien, that is nonsensical.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: Tell me what the explanation for this is. What is the explanation for the whistleblowers, whose names are on record-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----a social worker and a director of services from WIDA, to say, that in six years of dealing with the HSE and, indeed, the Department of Health, they were discredited------
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: They use phrases like "damaging their professional reputation". They described themselves as outraged and insulted.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
Mary Lou McDonald: They say that statements released by the HSE referred to meetings with their agency that did not take place and so on. Is Mr. O'Brien familiar with this piece of correspondence?