Results 17,261-17,280 of 34,778 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We will note items Nos. 775 and 790 (C) as they have just been discussed. The next is item No. 787, correspondence from the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA. This is additional information in follow-up to our meeting on 28 September. Interestingly, the correspondence refers specifically to policy so I propose that we refer this to the Joint Oireachtas Committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I refer to item No. 794(C).
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Bear with me. I ask the Deputy to check the number.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, that was circulated to us last night. No. 806 concerns Connect Ireland. The Deputy wrote a letter to HIQA then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: So as to be clear, the Deputy is on item No. 794.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are dealing then with Nos. 794 and 805.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have heard that before.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We received this anonymously. Let us be clear on that. Some of us got an envelope with this in it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane was next.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: From a practical point of view, HIQA made it clear it has no role in setting the fees and costs of nursing homes. Those are set by the National Treatment Purchase Fund. The body which deals with the nursing homes is the NTPF. When it comes to the fair deal issue and the cost of the fair deal issue, and what the State pays the nursing homes, we will have to have the NTPF here because its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: In fairness to the Deputy, I was trying to assist. The Deputy has on several occasions asked for fair deal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: This correspondence impinges on that. I thought the Deputy wanted to discuss the fair deal issue and I stated these are all similar issues. If the Deputy wants to leave the fair deal issue for another day-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will move on it as quick as we can.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: How are we proceeding? Is it only the HIQA aspect of it and Tadhg Daly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy want to have someone else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy mean the National Treatment Purchase Fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I broadened it because it is relevant. I think there is a day's work in that. We cannot set a date but we have mentioned several organisations. I will ask the secretariat to try to set a time and date for that meeting as quickly as can be done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am happy with that.