Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Leopardstown Park Hospital: Chairperson Designate
5:30 pm
Mr. Eugene Magee:
We will be getting to that stage very shortly. At present, we can take them in at other locations. We deal with HIQA in two ways. First, it has an official who deals with the hospital but I never see that person. On one occasion I wrote to then chief executive of HIQA and she put one of her senior executives in touch with us. That individual was quite helpful and forthcoming. I do not think we necessarily find that on a day-to-day basis in the sense that it would be difficult to get HIQA to say that if we spend the €2.5 million on refurbishment, it will still license us in five years' time. I do not think one will get an easy answer to that question.
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