Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

Yes. They have that statutory responsibility but the HSE, as funder, and the Department, with the responsibility it enjoys, need to oversee that and make sure it is being performed correctly. We have put a structure in place to make sure that is happening. Otherwise we would be having ad hocmeetings, calling people in, not having a proper structure to it. This is the structure that we use. We minute the meetings. We do a full review of the programme as it is when we meet and we look at issues that are coming up or on the horizon.