Consultants working on one of the two Grace foster abuse scandal reports wanted €2,200 a day to do their work, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

More than 10 people who left a disabled woman in an abusive home are still in their jobs, facing no sanction, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

POLITICS the world over is full of guff. Full of bluster, self-serving statements, can-kicking, lies, and murky hypocrisy. Our Irish brand of politics is no different.

Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have reached out to the whistleblower at the heart of the Grace foster abuse scandal to help them identify failings in HSE evidence to them.

One of the whistleblowers at the heart of the Grace sex abuse scandal has called on Health Minister Simon Harris to correct what she has called misleading information, given on television last weekend.

Considerable inconsistencies exist in the HSE’s evidence to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and one of the main reports into the Grace foster abuse scandal, it has been claimed.

Plans to force HSE director general Tony O’Brien to address concerns that he and others misled a Dáil committee over the Grace scandal last year could be blocked because the inquiry into the case is now in place.

Under Dáil privilege, Fine Gael TD John Deasy claimed senior HSE and Tusla officials covered up, and continue to cover up, the Grace foster abuse scandal. His full speech is published below

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Two HSE officials directly involved in the Grace foster abuse scandal were promoted to senior roles to protect vulnerable adults at risk of abuse two years after the damning Conal Devine report was completed.

Five senior HSE officials and six more Tusla employees directly involved in the Grace foster abuse scandal are set to be the subject of disciplinary investigations which could potentially result in their sackings.

Until people are held to account, such apologies are meaningless, writes Daniel McConnell.

The whistleblower at the centre of the Grace foster abuse scandal has accused the HSE of contradicting itself by not forcing officials involved in the case to step down.

The HSE has called on the Government’s most senior legal official to provide it with evidence showing why it must publish two detailed reports into the Grace foster abuse scandal, amid an ongoing stand-off between the State bodies.

The Government is unlikely to accept a partial publication of two HSE reports into the Grace foster abuse scandal and may attempt to force their immediate and full release if they are not made public this week.

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Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

A senior HSE manager tried to sack the whistle-blower who revealed the Grace foster abuse scandal in a detailed legal letter which was proven to involve entirely “fabricated” claims.

The author of the State-sanctioned report into the Grace foster abuse scandal, senior counsel Conor Dignam has called for the now imminent commission of inquiry into the case to include a series of specific issues.

The whistleblower who first highlighted the Grace foster abuse scandal has welcomed the fact a State inquiry is now set to occur into her belief that the case was covered up by health service officials.