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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Were there any minor issues? The review of the board is done to find out the issues. What are the issues?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Did any issue come up about how money was being spent from the National Treatment Purchase Fund in hospitals? Did any of that come up proactively from the NTPF's review or from its internal mechanisms?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: No. Does Mr. Gallagher think that is acceptable? Reflecting on that as a board, are there some issues there for the board, from the audit and risk committee and the patient committee? No issues emerged related to any of these matters.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is a cause for reflection, is it not? Does the NTPF learn from the media about the difficulties with the funding and how it is being used?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I understand and I read that. Is there more than one or do I have repetitions of them? Is there more than one memorandum of understanding?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Obviously it was not complied with. Is that not right, from what we know?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Now we have a review by the HSE to try to find out the issues with the hospitals and how widespread this is. I will go back to Ms Nugent. She took great care to tell us that the media reports were wrong and that this did not happen in a private clinic. Personally, it is immaterial to me. What is important is that the consultant was doing this in a clinic in a public hospital, privately.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Ms Nugent is shaking her head so I will simplify it. Public patients are seen by a consultant on a Saturday though the National Treatment Purchase Fund. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Was that one of a number of consultants?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Were the other consultants involved in that work on a Saturday?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chair.

Selct Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Meastacháin i gcomhair Seirbhísí Poiblí 2025
Vóta 42 - Forbairt Tuaithe, Pobal agus an Ghaeltacht (Athbhreithnithe) (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. Maithfidh sé dom é go ndéarna mé dearmad fáilte a chur roimh an Uasal Ó Droighneáin. Tá fáilte roimhe. Tá deis againn ceisteanna a chur. Glaoim ar an Teachta Ó Cearúil.

Selct Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Meastacháin i gcomhair Seirbhísí Poiblí 2025
Vóta 42 - Forbairt Tuaithe, Pobal agus an Ghaeltacht (Athbhreithnithe) (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: San fhómhar. All right. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire.

Selct Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teachtaireacht chuig an Dáil (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: De réir Bhuan-Orduithe 110 de Dháil Éireann, seolfaidh cléireach an choiste an teachtaireacht seo a leanas chuig Cléireach na Dála: Tá Roghchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge tar éis a bhreithniú ar na Meastacháin Athbhreithnithe le aghaidh seirbhísí poiblí le haghaidh na bliana dár...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacancies in all local authority planning departments, by local authority, in tabular form; the steps being taken to fill these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35845/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the 2024 annual report of the special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse, the consideration given to the creation of an additional housing need category pursuant to Section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations to include the category of ‘survivor’...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No 150 of 19 June 2025, the reason for the difference between the €794 million estimate for the year-10 Exchequer contribution to auto-enrolment provided in that reply and the €539 million estimate for the year-10 Exchequer contribution to auto-enrolment provided in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 551. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the 2025 rounds of the International Protection Fund, the National Integration Fund and the Community Integration Fund will each be opened for applications; the amounts that will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35249/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of families and the number of children with status, per county who have been issued with letters informing them that they will be moved to alternative IPAS accommodation if they have not sourced private accommodation by 4 July 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35360/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (1 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 905. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht i gcomhthéacs cheisteanna 482 agus 483 a freagraíodh an 25 Feabhra 2025 cén dul chun cinn atá déanta leis an obair thaighde bunaithe ar fhoinsí éagsúla Stáit a bhí le foilsiú ag Údarás na Gaeltachta ag tabhairt léargas ar an nasc idir an Ghaeilge, an...