Whistleblowers: HSE trying to cut out conclusions

A report into claims that €600,000 in agency funding was cut after whistleblowers exposed the Grace foster abuse scandal is being delayed because the HSE wants to remove some of its “true and accurate” conclusions. The allegation has been made by two whistleblowers at the centre of the case in a letter to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

In the correspondence sent to the PAC, the whistleblowers claim the delay in releasing the report is because HSE officials are questioning key findings. While saying the conclusions are “true and accurate”, their letter, which has been seen by the Irish Examiner said the HSE officials claim the information should not be released as it falls outside the independent Deloitte report’s terms of reference.

“[Independent accountancy firm] Deloitte completed a draft report in May [which was due in March], which we were broadly happy with,” the whistleblowers’ letter read.