Child rights too vital to be left to tender mercies of HSE bureaucrats

PROFESSOR Brendan Drumm epitomised the worst aspects of public administration late last week.

The HSE boss was being asked to explain why his organisation had failed to release files of child deaths for 12 weeks to an independent review committee. He went out of his way to reiterate that he wouldn’t countenance breaking the law to release information.

He added it was the bending of regulations that had caused many of our contemporary problems. What an affront – trying to use the failure of our disastrous light touch financial regulation to justify the HSE putting its own preservation ahead of the protection of children.