Sex abuse cases: HSE gives its response to recommendations in the Conal Devine report

The HSE has given the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) a 24-page report outlining its response and handling of instances of “savage abuse” involving disabled children and young adults in a foster home.

In those documents to the PAC, the HSE included previously unpublished findings and recommendations contained in the Conal Devine report into the abuse of one victim between 1989 and 2009. The Devine report has been withheld from publication on foot of a request from Gardaí, who are is still investigating many of the allegations concerned.

However, we know now that the HSE has accepted the recommendations of the Conal Devine Report and has admitted failures in care to the victims, who were housed in this foster home in the South-East.