Results 21-40 of 616 for speaker:Grace Boland
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Is NTPF funding incentivising workarounds where core public duties are de-prioritised in favour of better paid insourced clinics?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Do we think that the patients who have been waiting the longest have been de-prioritised or in-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: The last time Ms Nugent was before the committee, I highlighted that paragraph 8.4 of the code of practice for governance of State bodies provides that a State body "should not enter into confidentiality agreements which preclude it from disclosing details of the settlement reached in the financial statements, save in exceptional circumstances and on foot of legal advice ...". I asked Ms...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: I am running out of time. I appreciate Ms Hardiman's answer. On the NDA specifically, why was it deemed that we needed to have an NDA? If there is no issue or nothing to hide-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: -----both Ms Hardiman and CHI could have waived it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Would Ms Hardiman be happy and confident that both she and CHI can both waive the NDA so that we have full transparency in relation to any settlement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: All three can waive it. If the NDA is not required, if there is nothing to hide, it can be waived.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: As a lawyer, it is really important that I state it is not an absolute employment right that two contracts equal a contract of indefinite duration, in particular if there is an objective justification. I assume, given the hefty amount of the legal fees, that it was not accepted and it was settled on the basis that Ms Hardiman's position was not accepted. Could we just be clear on that? Was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: In her evidence earlier, Ms Hardiman said that two contracts equal a contract of indefinite duration. That is not absolutely the case. It is not an absolute employment right. Because she has gone on the record, I just want to make sure that we are clarifying that. There would not have needed to be a dispute that gave rise to Ms Hardiman having €100,000 in legal fees if her position...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: It is important to say that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Sorry, there was a Supreme Court case in relation to your role?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: However, CHI did not accept it, or the Department of Health did not accept it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: -----which is why Ms Hardiman ended up in a mediation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: I am not sure, to be honest with Ms Hardiman. I will ask Ms Nugent about the Children's Health Foundation, CHF. Is CHI responsible for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: What is the governance with regard to that? Public moneys are given to that foundation and it has quite a significant sum of money sitting there. How does that work in terms of how that money is applied towards Children's Health Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: In terms of the amount of money, there is over €30 million sitting there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Lastly, Ms Brady mentioned breaches of the memorandum of understanding. Is there any penalty for hospitals that breach the MOU?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Should some penalties be built into it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Does Ms Brady feel the hospitals have breached the NTPF's trust?