HSE refuses to explain why ‘clerical error’ wasn’t reported as data breach

The HSE will not explain why the “clerical error” at the centre of the false Tusla sex abuse claims against whistleblower Maurice McCabe failed to be registered as a data protection breach.

A HSE spokesperson refused to comment yesterday, despite saying last weekend the “administrative error” was referred to its data protection section when uncovered — meaning it should have automatically been identified as a data protection breach.

As revealed by the Irish Examiner and RTÉ’s Prime Time programme last Thursday, Sergeant McCabe was the subject of false sex abuse claims detailed in a Tusla file by a HSE counsellor at the height of the penalty points scandal in 2014.