FF and PDs ‘jumpy and paranoid’ over Travers Report

GOVERNMENT members of the Oireachtas Health Committee will today be accused of closing ranks to protect former Health Minister Micheal Martin from being criticised in a committee report into the illegal nursing home charges scandal.

After hearing two months of evidence on the Travers Report into the scandal and the background to the affair, the Oireachtas Health Committee is due to publish its final report on the matter tomorrow.

However, frustrated at the manner in which the committee’s report was finalised, Labour and Fine Gael will today outline how critical conclusions were kept out of the report.