The Brandon report was commissioned from the national independent review panel by the HSE. The report that looks at the management, or indeed mismanagement, in a residential centre in Donegal. It outlines the sexual abuse of up to 20 residents by another resident and the inaction of the HSE, the Garda and HIQA on it for many years. It has been reported today that the HSE will publish the executive summary of the report in the coming days. Will the Minister share the calls by the Taoiseach and Tánaiste for the immediate publication of the full Brandon report? This will ensure lessons will be learned from this sad case. Will the Government publish the full report if the HSE does not do so? The HSE has shown it has no interest. Will we have to read the full report into the Dáil record to ensure it is published?

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue and I acknowledge his work on it and his role in bringing forward the issue. The issue set out in the report is deeply disturbing. The fact it continued over such a period of time with the knowledge of people on the ground and members of staff is quite shocking. I will have to ask the Minister to come back to the Deputy on the intention to publish the report. I certainly believe in openness. If there is no compelling reason not to publish it, then I believe it should be published.