Foster care abuse whistleblower meets HSE chief

The HSE whistleblower who uncovered the foster care abuse scandal has held a “lengthy, constructive, and positive” meeting with HSE director general Tony O’Brien in a bid to ensure the issue is finally addressed.

The social worker and a colleague met with Mr O’Brien and Paul Connors, the HSE’s national director of communications, for a number of hours in Dublin yesterday after the talks were privately called for by Leo Varadkar, the health minister.

It is understood the meeting involved the whistle-blower explaining in detail the difficulties she has faced in having the case high- lighted in recent years, and further information about what happened that was not contained in the still unpublished Conal Devine and Resilience Ireland HSE reports.