Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 9:

In page 18, line 9, after “Children’s Health Ireland” to insert “and its subsidiaries”.

This amendment is being submitted in order that the subsidiaries of Children's Health Ireland would be subject to oversight by the Committee of Public Accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General. We spend a great deal of time talking about accountability and all members try their best to ensure there is accountability. Outside of these walls, people throw their eyes up to heaven and think that nobody is accountable for anything and there is no accountability. That is regrettable. At every opportunity where we can include additional accountability, we should do so, but if there are going to be subsidiaries of Children's Health Ireland, they should be subject to the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Committee of Public Accounts.