Health department slated over supervision failure

THE Department of Health was criticised for failures in its supervisory role over the Blood Transfusion Service Board by the Lindsay Report.

But former Health Ministers Rory O’Hanlon and Barry Desmond were cleared of any blame for giving inaccurate information to the Dáil.

The Department did not move quickly and decisively to solve staffing and structural problems in the Blood Transfusion Service Board.