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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sure she is a person of the utmost integrity and independence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It seems to me, based on the tone of the letter we received and on the conversation I had with Mr. Jermyn, that the hospital was not trying to obfuscate by not appearing before the committee. It would have been better if the hospital had been represented here to answer the questions raised by members. Is it agreed that we will write formally to the hospital following today's meeting on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Cullen. There is no need for Mr. Cullen to read the part of his submission relating to procurement policy because it will be seen as part of his testimony.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind the Deputy that these are all allegations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Okay. Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Deputy Ó Caoláin understand that is an allegation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish to draw the committee's attention to correspondence No. 1401(a) and (b). Professor Keane, the acting chief executive officer, is on annual leave. I refer members to the last paragraph of the correspondence, in which the hospital has said it will come before the committee. I also wish to make it clear that it is important that people do not give opinion regarding the nature of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Prior to that, how robust was the hospital's auditing and reviewing of its stocktaking and procurement practices?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Are they unannounced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will take one question from Deputy Troy and then go back to the members of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: These are allegations, of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Deputy to withdraw that remark, because he cannot prove it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish to come back to Deputy Mitchell O'Connor's questions for one second. In the appendix to Mr. Cullen's statement, it said that invoices are subject to a three-way match before payment is authorised, namely matching the purchase order, receipt and invoice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that done routinely, as a matter of fact?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Did this apply to the cases mentioned in the "Prime Time" programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Was the hospital asked to compile the terms of reference itself or were they given to it by the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. Cullen believe there is a culture of inducement or incentivisation in terms of companies or service providers engaging with people to try to get their products or services into a particular hospital? Has there been any engagement from the HSE about any company over which there may be a question mark? Has anyone ever raised an issue with Mr. Cullen about a particular company that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the investigation just about purchasing, or the whole service level agreement regarding the servicing of expensive equipment and the issues around that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Cullen for his presence and his very forthright answers. On behalf of the committee, I pay tribute to the work that Mr. Cullen and his staff in the hospital are doing. They are welcome to stay with us as part of the meeting or to excuse themselves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The second part of our meeting is our engagement with the Health Service Executive, HSE. I welcome the officials and thank Mr. Ray Mitchell and Mr. Paul Connors of the HSE for facilitating the meeting. We are discussing procurement of health equipment and products and service level agreements. I welcome Mr. Liam Woods, HSE national director, acute hospital division, Mr. Michael Flynn,...