The H.S.E. Knew Since 2015. Said Nothing. Here's the Document.

The H.S.E.'s own internal audit found a decade-long governance failure at the centre of its national safety infrastructure. Most Irish people have no idea it exists.
The Health Service Executive established its National Health and Safety Function in two thousand and fifteen. That function was required to complete a management review by the end of two thousand and sixteen. It is now two thousand and twenty-six. The review has never been completed. The function has operated without a formal mandate ever since — and the document confirming this was not announced. It was released under a Freedom of Information request.
Sixteen of thirty-three acute Irish hospitals currently have no health and safety officer in post — a legal requirement under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act two thousand and five. The named hospitals include Cork University Hospital, Galway University Hospital, St James's Hospital Dublin, University Hospital Waterford, University Hospital Limerick, and Mercy University Hospital.
The same audit found that in two thousand and twenty-four alone, the H.S.E.'s audit programme generated over two thousand Quality Improvement Plans — identified safety problems assigned for resolution across six health regions. There was no national tracking system to monitor whether any of them were actually fixed.
A separate investigation published in April two thousand and twenty-six documented the human cost: an average of eighteen incidents of aggression, challenging behaviour, or violence recorded every single day across Irish hospitals over the past three years. Almost twenty thousand incidents in total. A spike in maternity hospitals. The State Claims Agency paid out over three million euro in related damages over the same period.
This video covers the structure of the governance failure, the specific hospitals affected, the H.S.E.'s own response, and what the Comptroller and Auditor General has previously flagged about the pattern of self-identified failures that are never resolved before the next audit cycle.
WHY THIS MATTERS FOR IRELAND: If you have attended or plan to attend any of the sixteen named hospitals — or if you have a family member who does — this is the safety oversight structure that was legally required to protect them. It has not existed in the form required by law since two thousand and fifteen.

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