HSE chief treating foster care abuse victim with ‘contempt’

HSE director general Tony O’Brien has been accused of treating foster care abuse victim ‘Grace’, and the general public, with “contempt”, for failing to release a damning report into €600,000 of cutbacks imposed on those who uncovered the sexual abuse scandal.

The Public Accounts Committee made the claim after being formally told, by letter, of the latest delay in publishing the report. The letter also confirmed the HSE has spent €185,984 on the case in legal challenges.

PAC chair and Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming said, in response to criticism about the delay last week in publishing the Deloitte cutbacks’ report, that Mr O’Brien had written to the committee to explain the latest holdup.