HSE told to hand over audit report

The public accounts committee has demanded the HSE immediately hand over an audit report into claims it cut funding to the organisation of the whistleblower in the ‘Grace’ foster care abuse scandal.

Following a meeting with the whistleblower, held in private, the PAC is demanding the HSE hand over the audit report, conducted by Deloitte before June 15, when health bosses are due back in before the committee.

PAC chairman Sean Fleming, speaking to the Irish Examiner, said the HSE will be told to provide the Deloitte report into claims of funding cuts to the whistle-blower’s agency when she highlighted the Grace case.