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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I respectfully suggest it is something that needs to happen. It is the only way that people will have full trust in the inspection system for nursing homes. It was mentioned earlier that HIQA has a duty or requirement to visit nursing homes once a year. Is HIQA fulfilling this duty? Has every nursing home been visited in the past 12 months?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I ask Ms Cliffe to repeat this.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: All will be visited once and a majority will have more than one visit.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I thank Ms Cliffe. Do further inspections follow from issues that HIQA may have seen in a previous inspection? Do they follow complaints? What are the criteria for HIQA to decide?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I couch this with my earlier comment that HIQA can have many successes but its failings is what it is judged on. What accountability has there been in HIQA for what we saw in "RTÉ Investigates" in terms of the utter failure of regulation and inspection? Has there been any accountability in the organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: As the head of the organisation does Ms Fitzgerald feel the public has confidence in HIQA?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Does HIQA measure public confidence? Does it engage or do surveys?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: In terms of the "RTÉ Investigates" programme and the shock to the nation it caused, can HIQA assure people that there will be or that there has been a step change in approach from HIQA in trying to address issues like that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: By the end of the year HIQA hopes to have visited them all.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the total cost for running each of the various citizens assemblies since 2016; to provide a breakdown of the cost categories in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on plans to support of high speed rail link between Cork and Dublin, in line with the new National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44470/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the current N28 after the M28 becomes operational in 2028; his plans for a sustainable travel corridor on this route, connecting Carrigaline, Ringaskiddy and other areas with Douglas and the City Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amounts paid to vehicle owners for damage caused to vehicles on public roads from potholes, poor surface and other reasons; the amounts paid in 2022, 2023, 2024 in each local authority area; the amounts from the national figure for example number of claims paid less than €250, €500, €750, €1,000,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 391. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the decision to end the TFI bike share programme in Cork city; his plans to replace the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 478. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the capital acquisitions tax thresholds in Budget 2026; if he will particularly examine the inequitable treatment of childless individuals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44490/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Planning Issues (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 518. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify that the application of the residential zoned land tax (RZLT) ceases once construction commences on a site; if construction has commenced on a site, but subsequently stops for a prolonged period, if the RZLT will reapply at some point or if some other penalty may apply to a developer for letting an unfinished site sit there for such a period....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Seized Property (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 565. To ask the Minister for Finance the full costs to the State involved in storing and maintaining the MV Matthew ship since it was seized; the details of the disposal process; and the reason for the long delay involved. [46632/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 607. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the top ten public contracts in value terms including project name, completed in the past five years; the total final cost of each contract versus the original contract cost; to provide details of variations in the cost from the contract price to the final cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44530/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 1003. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will initiate meaningful discussions with an organisation (details supplied) and other representatives to negotiate an agreed resolution to the school secretaries and caretakers dispute. [46991/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the total amount of Government funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in 2023, 2024 and 2025. [45664/25]