A review into claims that the HSE slashed funding to a private health agency where the whistleblower in the Grace case works after she raised the alarm over her care is unlikely to be published until at least May.

LIKE a good German in the 1930s trying to understand what was happening in their country, most HSE employees, and some gardaí too, must be appalled at the shocking, bewildering relevations of neglect and cruelty around the foster care scandal in the south east.