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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: There are overcrowding and risk issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Have they got in the reception officers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. It might be helpful if Mr. Egan gave us those issues. That would be very helpful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Egan. I am sorry but I am watching the clock and the Chair. In relation to private hospitals, it has taken some time to bring that under HIQA's remit. How many private hospitals have been inspected?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: HIQA is beginning that process, therefore.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Again, does Mr. Egan have any comment on what issues are arising?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Will they be the first reports?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: That is good. Is Mr. Colfer the chief inspector now or a designate, to clarify his position?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: That explains the word "designate" here. There is a deputy as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Under the legislation, Mr. Colfer has a particular role, has he not? It is set out under legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Does Mr. Colfer have all the powers? I think he said something earlier on and I missed it - I was watching too many things. The role is to register, to inspect and also to bring prosecutions if necessary. Does Mr. Colfer have all of those powers? Have they been delegated to him now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: All of them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Were they all delegated at the same time by the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Was that in November?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: So all of the necessary powers have been delegated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Colfer. To return to IT and legal services, an issue in respect of a possible conflict of interest was mentioned earlier and what would arise if the same firm were to be advising HIQA, the health executive or third parties. I was not reassured by the answer that was given in that regard. Has a particular company of solicitors advised HIQA at the same time it has advised a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: How many times has that happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Ms Fitzgerald is satisfied-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: -----that the safeguards are in place to prevent a conflict of interest.