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 Lucy Nugent:

The culture is largely positive. There are pockets of culture that are not working, but that is not across the entire organisation. I would be doing a disservice to my colleagues if I said otherwise. There are a number of cultural programmes under way. Some of my colleagues are down in Dr. Steevens' Hospital as we speak. We will be joining them afterwards. We are doing a full-day workshop with the HSE about the national culture programme it is rolling out. We have put our hands up to engage in that.

Staff need get to know me. I am new, so I have made it my business to have the engagement sessions I was talking about. However, we also need to listen to the people who use our services. That is important. We are lucky that we have the youth advisory council. It is made up of young people who are either current patients or immediate past patients of CHI.