Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not mean simplify but clarify. No. 2329 B is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, providing notes on matters requested by the committee on 27 June about the national incident management system and the number of category 1 incidents. We sought this information to feed into and help draft our next periodic report on the State Claims Agency, in which medical negligence and other claims against the State will be a significant element. Category 1 is major and extreme events, category 2 is moderate events, and category 3 is minor events. The notes give a breakdown of the top five minor events, including slips, trips and falls, clinical procedures, self-injuries, behaviour on medication, and violence, harassment and aggression. The note states that the main problems in category 1 are with clinical procedures. This will feed into our report on medical negligence, the cost to the State and the State Claims Agency. We will tease that out for our next periodic report. We will note and publish that.

No. 2330 B is from Dr. Jack Golden, interim chief executive officer of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, dated 18 July, providing information on the communications consultancy services contract. We asked for that at an earlier meeting. The note states that the amounts paid to Q4 Public Relations under the communications consultancy services contract were €204,000 in 2015, €274,000 in 2016, €276,000 in 2017, and €248,000 to date in 2019. It gives the scope of that contract and what is involved. We will note and publish that. Somebody specifically asked that question the last day the board was here.