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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is the first response we have had.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We want to go into this matter and I am with the Deputy on it. However, the families might have a concern and they are clearly identifiable within the institution because the organisation knows about the issue. I want to be sensitive to the people who are living in the nursing home and their families and I do not want to escalate something in such a way as to make them uncomfortable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I would like to check back with them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. I met a delegation here in Dublin.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will start with the person in question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can possibly have a chat about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: As Chairman, I would not like to call the organisation in without touching base with the families concerned.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will be happy to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: To which report is the Deputy referring?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We all know that the recommendation of the Ombudsman is not legally binding. We can take up that report if the Ombudsman has already done a body of work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is Deputy Catherine Murphy referring to Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise or to other hospitals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might not be quite the same topic, but we have written to the State Claims Agency to identify the number of hospitals on its books in the context of material cases and the cost of the reviews.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Representatives from the State Claims Agency will be before the committee at its next meeting to discuss medical negligence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. The State Claims Agency has a system for monitoring and recording all of those. It is the national incident management system, NIMS. This is an issue to which we will return when the representatives from the State Claims Agency appear before us in a fortnight to discuss medical negligence. In the meantime, I have given an undertaking to follow up on this matter. I will communicate...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will meet the family because I met them during the summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a specific issue, which we are dealing with, and there is also a broader issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will keep both alive. No. 1667 B is correspondence from Ms Katherine Licken, Secretary General of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, in response to a request made by the committee for information regarding Galway's designation as European Capital of Culture for 2020, including the new structures and plans for the money that has been allocated and the service level...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: A commitment has been given that the performance delivery agreement will be in place with the Department by the end of October, which is next week. We will ask to have a copy of it by 6 November, in advance of our next meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for that to be with us in advance of our next meeting. That is agreed. No. 1672 B is correspondence from Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, president of National University of Ireland Galway, providing information requested by the committee on non-competitive procurement to the value of €5.2 million and severance payments and out-of-office leave payroll costs...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: In a moment. G4S Secure Solutions Ireland Ltd. was paid €373,302 without competitive procurement. That is extraordinary. Tomkins and Co. was paid €241,074, Micromail Limited was paid €208,989, Core Computer Consultants Ltd. was paid €180,100 and Swimworld was paid €127,980 without competitive procurement. I know there are not many procurement options for...