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:
That is an important question. When Children's Health Ireland was established in 2019 it was clear, through 2019 and 2020 - less so in 2020 because of the Covid pandemic - that there were issue with this particular service. It seemed to be different issues were coming up through different members of the executive and things in hand. Most of them seemed to be around operational matters. In 2021, we decided to assign an operations person to this service to try to address the issues-----