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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does everybody who works in all the organisations that HIQA regulates require Garda clearance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I know well it is not. In its inspections, would HIQA check registers or the files?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Connolly mentioned that approximately 80% of nursing homes are now in the private sector and that 20% are in the public sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does HIQA notice any difference between the 80% and the 20%? In the context of the 20%, what is HIQA happy or unhappy about, or vice versa, particularly if there is a different culture operating within the organisations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness does not have a particular concern in respect of the private or public sector specific to the ownership-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: HIQA has been existence for ten years and this is its first time before the Committee of Public Accounts so I ask the witnesses to bear in mind that members of the committee do not have the same knowledge of the organisation as would members of the Joint Committee on Health, for example. As chief inspector, the witness is answerable to the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Accounting Officer is answerable to us in his own right but Ms Dunnion has a separate reporting role, which I presume is to the Committee on Health or perhaps just the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: As chief inspector, has she been called in to the Oireachtas to report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: To the Joint Committee on Health.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Departments of Health and Children and Youth Affairs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: HIQA has a regulatory role in regard to older people and those with disabilities. In County Laois, HIQA had a role with regard to Abbeyleix and St. Brigid's Hospital in Shaen-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: There are some units that I would call psycho-geriatric. The witness mentioned dementia. There is a unit in Portlaoise linked to the main hospital. When I inquired locally, I was told that HIQA did not investigate it but rather the Mental Health Commission is responsible. Where does HIQA end and where does the Mental Health Commission start and are both organisations fulfilling a similar...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Which organisation takes charge in such a situation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Who decides what constitutes a designated centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is black and white.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: There are no joint inspections.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness understands the reason for my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have learned something today and I am always big enough to say when I have learned something new. HIQA inspects the areas it regulates such as those for older people and those with disabilities but it also often inspects hospitals. That confuses many members of the public. I do not have to mention the report into the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. The public believes HIQA has a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness calls it monitoring. I have just learned the difference between those two terms. The the public at large thinks HIQA has a role in respect of hospitals because it often issues reports in that regard. There is significant misunderstanding of its role.