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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management (14 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: No, it is the policy I am interested in.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the witnesses. I will ask my questions as someone who admires the public service and who has constantly spoken for a public health service. What was Mr. O'Brien's reaction when he read the audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Following that reaction, which was my reaction also I must say as I was simply appalled, saddened and angered, what did Mr. O'Brien do? What steps did he immediately take?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I accept that, and after it was completed in April this year what did Mr. O'Brien do?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: What action?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I hear what Ms O'Connor is telling me. Did she call a meeting of the audit committee? Does she sit on the audit committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: So she actually sits on that committee. Did it occur to her during that time to call an audit committee meeting, that the HSE had a serious problem on its hands?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Ms O'Connor, I have difficulty with that management of the situation because we are in the bizarre situation here where we have this report, which we cannot go into, but we can use it in terms of holding the HSE to account. I keep forgetting the number of findings. There are 60 findings. This has already been highlighted-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: No, there are 60 findings.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: It has already been highlighted by my colleague that all of the findings in the audit have a high rating and many have national implications for the HSE. At the back of the document, we have 89 recommendations. Of those 89 recommendations, only four are directed to the HSE. A total of 85 are directed to the very person who - one has to be careful here - caused the audit to be had in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I have only ten or 15 minutes to ask a question. My question is very specific. Did it not occur to you or to any of your colleagues to call an urgent meeting in relation to the 60 findings and the 89 recommendations, and where they were going as a health executive in relation to this?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I have to say I believe that is a totally inadequate response. We are reliant on RTE and the programme that exposed this because when I read this - and I will make the same comment as my colleague made in his contribution - I wrote down a question, which was whether the HSE has grasped the nature of the problem. That is my comment on the 89 recommendations, with only four directed to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Dr. Smith, it is beyond learning at this point. There were 89 recommendations addressed to a body that is not co-operating in any way and Dr. Smith is sitting here today before the Committee of Public Accounts telling us this is learning. I have the greatest respect for the HSE and the services it is trying to provide but there was an abject failure to grasp what was going on. My question...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. Mr. O'Brien can object to it and I will take it back.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Just let me finish my sentence.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That is how it seems to me. I take it back if I am insulting Mr. O'Brien in any way. However, it seems to me that a decision was made on value for money, to use Mr. O'Brien's own words. Value for money was being provided and the rest was something the HSE could work on in the future. The HSE was fully intending to work with this body. I see heads shaking but 84 recommendations were...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: That may well be Mr. O'Brien's view, but there are 89 recommendations, of which 84 relate to working with the very body we see now in the courts. That is No. 1.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Just let me finish. I listened to you.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I did not interrupt Mr. O'Brien. Second, this report says that Console had charity status. I understand that it did not have charity status going back to June of last year. Is that correct?