Anger at HSE delay of ‘Grace’ reports

Cabinet ministers have reacted with fury over HSE delays in publishing reports into the ‘Grace’ sex abuse scandal in a Waterford foster home.

A Government-backed Commission of Inquiry is being held up because the HSE is refusing to publish two previous reports into the case involving a woman — known as Grace — despite legal opinion which has cleared it to do so.

It is understood that Attorney General Marie Whelan has said there is no impediment to the publication of the 2012 Conal Devine Report and the 2015 Resilience Ireland report.