The Minister for Disability Services Finian McGrath said he takes "very seriously" allegations by a whistleblower that a HSE manager had used "fabricated" information in letters to the High Court and her employers, which suggested she was unfit to represent a young woman with disabilities, known as 'Grace'.
The whistleblower worked with a disability organisation and took legal steps to remove 'Grace' from a foster home in which she was left for 13 years after abuse allegations were raised and the HSE ceased placing other foster children there.
The allegation was raised last Wednesday in the Dáil by Fine Gael’s John Deasy.
"The letters suggested that the whistleblower was not a fit person to represent her client and, as a result, the HSE could not be expected to work with her.
“What is interesting is that another HSE manager has since provided the whistleblower with a signed statement that the information contained in those letters had been fabricated," Mr Deasy said.
Mr McGrath said he had met the whistleblower and found her to be "very, very solid and very reliable".
A HSE spokesman said that the HSE had not been provided with documentary evidence supporting the allegations.
Mr McGrath has also queried why reports into the care of 'Grace' have not been published.
Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, Mr McGrath said it was his personal view that the reports, drawn up by management consultants Conal Devine and Resilience Ireland, should be put into the public domain.
While the HSE has said an ongoing garda investigation prevent it from releasing the reports, Mr McGrath said it was in the public interest to do so.
"My personal view is that I would err [on the side of] the public interest and make sure that these reports were published."
Mr McGrath said the upcoming Commission of Inquiry into the care of 'Grace' should concentrate on all matters concerning the care of individuals who were placed in the same foster home.
He said he did not agree with the suggestion by Barnardos Chief Executive Fergus Finlay that the case of 'Mary' - a woman left in a foster home at the centre of abuse allegations in the Cork/Kerry area - should also be included in the Commission's work.
