Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

I thank the witnesses for attending. HIQA has an incredibly important role in our society. It protects all of our loved ones, or at least it is supposed to. I hope HIQA leaves today with a renewed vigour to ensure safety and the highest standards across our nursing home sector and all health service providers. As an entity, HIQA has huge potential but we have to have a serious conversation today about what has happened, what has come to light and where we are going from there.

I want to pick up on Deputy Farrelly's point. According to the purchase orders, over €500,000 was paid on ICT contracts in 2024 to a company whose managing director had been the chair of HIQA between 2013 and 2018. Are the witnesses aware of the relationship between the company and how its managing director was the former chair of HIQA?