Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Public Accounts Committee
HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues
9:00 am
Mr. Brian McEnery:
I am head of health care and I do give advice. I will be giving advice to nursing homes next week. That is the truth. I have never tried to hide the fact of what I do, whether it is a hospital or a nursing home. That is my specialism. That has been my experience in life. I spoke at a conference organised by a company called CMG Events, which arranges conferences attended by many nursing homes. In fact, often there are a lot of nursing homes in attendance. I cannot control who is in attendance. I did not know who the attendees would be at that event in 2015. I was invited as a guest, I spoke and I left. I am disappointed at how it is being presented because I was not there in the capacity of an attendee, I was there to speak as a guest.
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