Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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One of the nine of the 11 recommendations of the PwC report that are relevant is to split the role of chief officer and to appoint a new person. While PwC was doing its report, which I believe was before Mr. Barry's time, the board came up with some recommendations of its own. One of these was to employ somebody else. Recommendation 5 in the PwC report was to beef up or strengthen the role. With regard to the implementation of the recommendations, is the only recommendation that has been implemented to date the recommendation to employ somebody else?