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.

THE thousands of committed staff working in our health service must be almost inured to the never-ending cascade of damaging reports. 

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.

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.

On Tuesday night, two whistleblowers at the heart of the Grace scandal arrived at the front gates of Leinster House for the Dáil debate on the scandal.

The Government will today launch a year-long investigation into the ‘Grace’ foster abuse scandal which will focus on cover-up claims, “threats” against whistle-blowers, and the actions of still-employed senior officials central to the case.

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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.

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A joint investigation by gardaí and British police was launched into claims at least one other vulnerable child was seriously abused while placed at the same foster home as Grace, in addition to a small number of other “potentially serious” cases.

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The Cabinet will finally approve terms of reference this week for a State inquiry into the ‘Grace’ foster home sex-abuse scandal.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has removed the final roadblock to publishing two key HSE reports into the ‘Grace’ foster abuse sex scandal.

Six months after plans were announced to set up a State inquiry into the ‘Grace’ abuse scandal, the case still faces delays, writes Political Reporter Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

HSE bosses have been summoned to a meeting with Disabilities Minister Finian McGrath in the coming days over revelations that hundreds of vulnerable adults were abandoned in care settings for years without any State follow-up.