Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund
2:00 am
Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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We can take from that what it is. Coming back to Ms Nugent, sections of this report have been referred to the Garda for potential misuse of public funds and it was the HSE that actually referred them. CHI did not refer the report and sat on it despite the timeline outlined here going back to 2021. CHI never sought an opinion from the HSE or the Department despite clear evidence of unnecessary clinics and, to us, misuse of public funds that happened in CHI Crumlin. It seems that even after the HSE sent the report to the Garda, CHI continued to oppose this. It was mentioned that it did not meet the threshold. Is that correct?