Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The first question I was going to ask the witnesses today was for them to explain the trolley crisis in accident and emergency departments but I learned during the course of the meeting that HIQA has nothing to do with that.

Has a vote been called in the Dáil? It is not on the screen.

This session is now completed. I thank the witnesses for taking part in the first visit by HIQA to the Committee of Public Accounts. As Chairman of the committee, I am very impressed that the 2016 financial statements of HIQA were finalised, audited and signed off by May 2017. If other public bodies were as prompt with their financial reporting it would be a great lesson for the rest of the public service. As there were no issues in respect of the HIQA accounts, can we agree to dispose of HIQA's 2016 financial statements? Agreed.

We will now suspend until 2.30 p.m. because there is a briefing on protected disclosure by the Parliamentary Legal Adviser in private session. There will be a short public session at 2.30 p.m. to deal with correspondence we did not get to in this morning's session.