Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for putting on record that he will chase this up. That is very welcome because I understand that, as RTÉ confirmed in its report in 2019, the two UK experts who were engaged to do the report secured assurances that it would be published. Unfortunately, those assurances have been reneged on by the HSE. As the Minister of State noted, it is completely unacceptable. I am placing my faith in the Minister of State because the scripted response he was handed by his colleagues in the Department does not give me reassurance. I want to be clear on that. His scripted response states that the report will be made available to stakeholders. That is not the same as it being published. It does not give any timeline. As the Minister of State pointed out, a wait of seven years is outrageous. We are all accustomed to the fact that the HSE has a culture of burying bad news and not being open and transparent. That is what has led to so many problems within the health system. We need a commitment from the Minister of State that the report will be published, not at some distant point but in the coming months. I ask him to deliver on that.