Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues

9:00 am

Mr. Brian McEnery:

I will be careful. In some of its communications it said, "We are shocked by the manner in which you and the HIQA board are exercising statutory powers". The HIQA board was not exercising statutory powers. It was the chief inspector. It also said, "We strenuously resist all efforts by the HIQA board to reduce our bed numbers in circumstances where we receive fair deal rates lower than those paid to our competitors and do not intend to charge additional service charges to our residents ...". It continues, "We are now writing to Mr. McEnery to assist us." It specifically wrote to me and said that it sought my intervention in not having the report published and it alluded to the fact that if it was published it would make that known to the Members of the Oireachtas, the media and the courts. It said in part of the letter that I would be subpoenaed.