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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: The HSE is standing back and saying it is advertising the post and will readvertise it, without any further consultation with the community. The community has a right to know what is happening here.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes, with 1,100 patients on a GMS panel.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: He actually accepted a post which was advertised in another healthcare centre.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Well, in this case, it is not. CHO 2 has decided that he will bring the list with him and will subsume it into the larger panel. Does Mr Gloster believe that that is fundamentally right?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes, but not in the same healthcare centre. The healthcare centre is 20-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I am just giving Mr. Gloster the distance-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I will follow up on that afterwards. My second question is on the tender process for the national private ambulance service. Can our guests provide an update to the committee on that, please?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: When was it completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: What is the overall budget which the HSE has set aside for the national private ambulance service?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: In the last remaining minute of my speaking time, a present which continually lands on my doorstep is the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital. Again, the Taoiseach visited the hospital last July with regard to it. There are delays in the submission of the planning application and the design. On the building and estates division within the HSE, has Mr Gloster strengthened that...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Okay. I thank Mr. Gloster.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I welcome the Minister and the guests who are joining us here this morning. I am sure the Minister will have been following the committee's hearings with RTÉ over recent weeks. On the serious revelations that were uncovered, how has she felt on listening to the many weeks of hearings and on hearing those revelations?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Given the gravity of the scandal, how confident is the Minister that the board of RTÉ can uphold its responsibilities and ensure RTÉ's standards and corporate governance are maintained?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Does the Minister agree with the assertion that the board of RTÉ was asleep at the wheel?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: We heard about the great failings in the checks and balances where they did not uncover ongoing issues and ask serious questions of executive management in RTÉ. Does the Minister have confidence in the board's capability to perform its oversight function effectively? We have heard that, in some instances, the board had not met for long periods. In hindsight, it was certainly asleep at...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: The feeling, as far as I am concerned anyway, is that something needed to happen with the board due to its failures. In any scenario where we had huge failings in corporate governance, the hard questions were not being asked. We have seen major casualties from RTÉ executive management, and rightly so, but nothing happened with the board. When it emerged that the Minister was not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Does the Minister agree that was a fatal mistake?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: Ms Forbes subsequently resigned two days later. Does the Minister think that was a mistake?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Alan Dillon: I want to move on to RTÉ's director general, Mr. Kevin Bakhurst, who said at a previous session of the Committee of Public Accounts that RTÉ will need around €56 million in additional interim funding and that it is expected to lose up to €21 million in TV licence revenue by the end of the year. Given that the station needs to meet its statutory obligations, what are...