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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: How would Mr. Reid describe this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is fantastic. Can Mr. Reid provide me then with the clinical process and decision-making of closing the Owenacurra centre? That is how he proves he is not moving people around like chess pieces. He proves it by providing transparent minutes of the decision-making. These people were living there for more than a decade.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Then why did the HSE underinvest in the building for more than a decade and invest more than €3 million in ward-based settings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. That is a fair answer. I would like to now turn to the Department. The HSE very clearly said just now that it is prioritising settings for 24-hour mental health placements that are directly in contrast to our national policies and what we know is best practice for patient care. At what point does the Department step in here when it is very obvious the HSE is not doing its job in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, so does St. Stephen's Hospital offer a better quality of care for these people than the Owenacurra centre did, if it had not been actively run into the ground?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry, but I want to be clear on how the Department sees the HSE investing far more than €3 million in settings such as St. Catherine's ward and St. Stephen's Hospital. Some of the clinical specialists in the area voiced concerns. It was inspected three times by the Mental Health Commission in December 2021 and March 2022. The lead inspector, Dr. Susan Finnerty, said: I was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I know I am at the end, Chairman. However, Ms McArdle is-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I could have done the two hours by myself.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I cannot let that comment go, I am afraid. The decision to close Owenacurra was appalling and it is even more appalling to hear the HSE doubling down on what was a wrong decision. What we have heard about today is a decision with no clinical oversight and one that was probably put in train in 2012 in terms of deciding to run that building into the ground. It is really shocking that the HSE...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I asked three specific questions and I am wondering if I can get an answer to them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will give Mr. Fitzgerald an overview. What consultation has the HSE had with Garnish House residents about their ultimate placements? Had the HSE informed residents of these plans before the details were released in a parliamentary question response to me? How has the HSE been dealing with the Owenacurra residents who it has been telling for the last year and a half are going to go to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: These are vulnerable people. Can Mr. Fitzgerald define what he means when he says they understood? What was the consultation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: In what format?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: In the session this morning we dealt with the HSE. I have been contacted during the lunch break by someone who has indicated that some of the answers given - while I am not saying they were lies, were less than representative of the truth. I refer to the issue of whether the HSE had contacted families from Garnish House. Families say they have not been contacted. As a relatively new...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Can the committee take any action if it is obvious or transparent that the answer was incorrect?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is great.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: We can take it from there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Thank you, Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Some. I could not answer for every single person involved. That also would not be a fair reflection of the truth.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Deputy Catherine Murphy has covered most of what I had planned to raise in this regard. I knew it had gone ahead with no formal business case in place. Could we ask the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform if it is standard operating procedure to make a major decision in terms of signing off on contracts with no business case? Could we ask it what its standard operating procedure in...