Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

On data quality from the NTPF, I have multiple prompt payments reports from the hospital's finance department. One has a labelling error, the files in another do not agree with the Department of Health's version of the file and there is another where the total sum does not agree with that of the Department of Health. An example I found quite concerning was that quarter 4 of 2019 and quarter 1 of 2021 had the exact same number of payments. There were 8,283 payments in both of those quarters and I find it incredible that two quarters have the exact same number of payments. There is no other quarter that is anywhere close. It might be a coincidence but it looked like it must have been an error. I find it hard to believe it was the exact same number. The chances of that are slim to none.