Results 1-20 of 1,162 for speaker:Catherine Ardagh
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: I thank our witnesses for coming before us. We have received disappointing news about the children's hospital, which is located in Dublin 8 in my constituency of Dublin South-Central. Will Mr. Gloster confirm the revised completion date and how it has moved from previous targets?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: As of today, can Mr. Gloster give me the up-to-date costs of the hospital?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: Mr. Gloster mentioned that he was trying to get ahead of any future delays in staffing and readiness of the hospital. How long will it take for the clinical aspect to be ready? If we get keys on 25 November, does he think clinical readiness will take a year, six months or another timeframe?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: It will be late 2026 before the first children will be seen. Is that Mr. Gloster's view?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: I will go back to the 2024 accounts and the fixed assets. The Comptroller and Auditor General outlined in his opening statement that there was a disclosure by the HSE where it wrote off €800,000 in 2024 relating to an asset that was constructed in 2009 but had not been used for its intended purpose. The original cost of the asset was €1.4 million. The public might be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: Did Mr. Mulvany say the pool was used for storage or put in storage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: What was stored in the pool? Was the pool used for storage or in storage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: Where is the pool now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: It has been disposed of. Do we have the cost of that disposal?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: Mr. Mulvany mentioned it was not used because the HSE did not have staff who were trained to use it. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: Why did it take until 2024 to write it off?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: This is an asset from 2009. Does Mr. Mulvany envisage that other dodgy assets will be written off and those write-offs will be drip fed to us over the next few years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: On the grant funding for section 38 and section 39 organisations, the Comptroller and Auditor General noted that 74% of grant funding in that year was not covered by signed service-level agreements. This question might be for Mr. Gloster. How many disability service providers operated in 2024 without a valid or current service-level agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: Where did the culture of using side letters come from? It seems as though they are used, especially where people are disclaiming elements of performance targets and elements of their budgets. What steps can the HSE take to force better compliance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: I apologise for interrupting. I only have a minute left. Some €7.7 billion in grant funding goes to these organisations and many of them are amazing organisations that do incredible work, but their boards are on occasion weak and their governance is weak. Has there been discussion at a higher level to take some of the work into the HSE directly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: Does Mr. Gloster think it is right to wait until an organisation is in huge difficulty before the HSE steps in? Should we look at these organisations, especially those where the governance is weak? Many were set up as charitable organisations and perhaps the people who are running them or are the founders-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: As a head of an organisation, would Mr. Gloster like the HSE to have the legal power to do that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Catherine Ardagh: I thank Mr. Gloster very much.