Former HSE director general Tony O’Brien: Cancer committees achieved zero value

Former HSE director general Tony O’Brien has lashed out at two Oireachtas committees examining the cervical cancer tests scandal, claiming they achieved zero value and based their investigations on “howls of indignation”.

Mr O’Brien launched the attacks against the public accounts and health committees as he accused them of “gratuitously offensive treatment” of officials and of dragging HSE managers away from more important work.