Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Public Accounts Committee
HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues
9:00 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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HIQA has a role in setting standards. Some of those standards cost money: residents getting individual rooms, for example, as opposed to two, three or four sharing a room. By virtue of driving up standards then, HIQA also has a role then in actually driving up costs. Does Mr. McEnery accept that is the case?