Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will ask also for a list of other advisers who were part of the document, "The New Children's Hospital Programme: Options for Going Forward". We want an emailed answer to that before the meeting is concluded today. The HSE knows the answer and can reply within an hour. There will be phone calls from lots of people seeking that answer and we want it in writing here today. We will check progress on that at the break shortly to ensure the HSE gets us a reply immediately.

We move on to correspondence in category C. No. 1875, dated 22 January 2019, was received from one of the witnesses who attended our meeting in private session on 22 January regarding the University of Limerick. We note it formally at this stage. It is agreed but it is not for publication.

No. 2088, dated 30 March, is from an individual on behalf of a residents' association in Tipperary requesting the committee to investigate the maladministration by Tipperary County Council on collecting financial contributions due under a grant of planning permission in 2000 and subsequent planning permissions. The matter is clearly not within the remit of the committee and the correspondence encloses a letter stating that a complaint has been made to the Ombudsman. I propose to advise the correspondent that he may also wish to bring the matter to the attention of the local government audit service. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 2089 is correspondence from Tadhg Daly, chief executive officer of Nursing Homes Ireland, dated 5 April, inquiring about a review of our system for setting nursing home prices under the nursing home support scheme. Mr. Daly states that the review was due in 2017 and that in its periodic report published last December, the committee recommended that the National Treatment Purchase Fund's review of its pricing mechanism should be concluded and published not later than the end of March 2019. I propose that we request an immediate update from the National Treatment Purchase Fund regarding the review. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Item No. 2090 is correspondence from Deputy Jonathan O'Brien dated 5 April on the PwC report which we have just mentioned. The document has been published and was circulated yesterday to all members. That concludes correspondence.

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