Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority

2:00 am

Ms Angela Fitzgerald:

The first is to look at regulatory reform. Deputy Geoghegan talked about being able to hold corporate entities to account properly. That is a key one. In terms of what we witnessed and what we had already identified through our own inspection processes, it is important to have adequate staffing and supervision and staff with the necessary skills. We called that out in both centres through our regulatory function, but it is important that we have a stronger mandate to call that out through the safe staffing framework. Third, HIQA has had some regulatory change which means we can now seek information more routinely. That is where what I call "monitoring surveillance" between inspections takes place. That is about us as well. Having the regulatory right to seek that information means HIQA can provide better assurance between inspections. They would be the three requests.

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