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

Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

My title is strategic programme director. The board determined that certain policy and strategic elements needed to be progressed, with everything else that we are trying to do in CHI, run hospital services, merge and work with the development board with the new children's hospital. Given that the new children's hospital is near to being handed over to us, it was important that these strategic projects were implemented. For example, I worked on the setting up the all-island congenital heart disease network, that is very successful. Last year, I set up an all-island complex pain management service