Results 181-200 of 855 for speaker:Albert Dolan

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: I have one question. What are the biggest issues facing the transition team now before handing over the keys and how is it planned to resolve those before getting the keys?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: On this round of questioning, I would like to speak directly to the NTPF. In the last few weeks, I have undertaken a body of work to write to every single competent authority and State body to see if they are meeting their obligations when it comes to publishing purchase order data on their websites. Is Ms Brady aware of my correspondence to the NTPF on 17 June?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: I wrote to the NTPF, and it was not to single it out as I wrote to all State bodies and entities. It has been a very fruitful exercise. Essentially, many of the State bodies have not been publishing their data, the NTPF included. The data may be there but it has not been published on the NTPF website. I appreciate the NTPF coming back and emailing me to commit to publishing this data,...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: It is in relation to specific NTPF money. The NTPF money comes to the hospital. Who did the NTPF pay it out to? Can we get a list from largest to smallest of that? Do the witnesses have a date as to when the NTPF is going to have its purchase order data online? I will say that the NTPF was not the only public body that was not doing it and I appreciate its commitment to do it from now on.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Is there a timeline?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Just so I am clear, nobody is tracking the NTPF money once it hits the hospital.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Nonetheless, right now, Ms Nugent could not tell me who got paid the most money from the NTPF last year. The NTPF can tell me which hospital got paid the most but Ms Nugent could not tell me which individuals got the most.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: That exercise has never been done.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Whether it is a company or an individual, it is somebody. There is always a Pareto effect. There is a disproportionate winner out of any outcome. Somebody is getting the most amount of money out of the NTPF, although they may be providing the most amount of services. I will explain what I am trying to get at. The NTPF gets the money from the Government and the NTPF hands the money to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: I want a list of who the highest earners were from the NTPF right down to the bottom. I know it can tell me which hospitals got the most but I want every hospital to tell me who got the money, for what procedures and how much. That is the governance issue for the NTPF as well. It should look for that back off the hospitals and ask them, since it gave them, say, €20 million or...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: I apologise as I know I am over my time. Are any related party checks performed on companies that are paid to consultants who are already employed within the hospital structure? For example, a consultant is employed in the hospital and that consultant simultaneously has a company. Is that in conflict with their contract? Is that a conflict of interest?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: CHI has done that check itself.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 111 of 25 June 2025 and 505 of 17 June 2025, the reason the reply issued did not provide the requested statistical breakdown of applications and approvals for each home ownership support scheme since their commencement, disaggregated by the variables (details supplied). [36774/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of general learning disability classes currently being provided at both primary and post-primary school level throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36474/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills at a national level, the number of children with Down syndrome currently enrolled in five distinct settings (details supplied). [36475/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications or expressions of interest received in the past year from parents or schools for access to mild and moderate general learning disability classes in children’s local area schools, which have not resulted in the opening of such classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a review has been undertaken of the educational provision for children with mild and moderate general learning disabilities (GLD) in mainstream schools since the introduction of the General Allocation Model in 2005, which saw the suppression of GLD classes in primary schools; if not, the reasons for this lack of review; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to support children with mild or moderate general learning disabilities (GLD) in mainstream schools, given the limited establishment of GLD classes in primary schools and the increasing necessity for families to seek placement in special schools, often far from their communities; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to support the transition of children with general learning disabilities (GLD) from primary to post-primary education, particularly where a child has had access to a GLD class or significant special educational needs support in primary school, but faces exclusion from post-primary schools in their catchment area due to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: 29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the value of the equalisation fund each year since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35549/25]