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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was it paying rent for that building in parallel with HIQA paying rent for the Dublin and Galway offices?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I thought the lease was broken.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What about the building that HIQA inherited?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was inherited in 2007.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is where the lease was broken. Am I correct in saying that the amount was over €1 million by the time everything was taken into account? Was it just under €1 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There was a penalty cost for breaking the lease, restoration costs and a cost to cover the eventuality of the building being surrendered. Are the witnesses telling me that, in addition to those penalties, the Office of Public Works was paying rent every year up to 2016 in parallel with HIQA paying rent on its building?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: My question is clear. Was the rent being paid on that building until the lease was broken?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was in addition to what HIQA was paying for its offices.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. That is clear. Why was the building not suitable for HIQA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was it not all set out when HIQA took over that the building was too small?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There are parallel processes. A building remained virtually empty except for CORU, which regulates health and social care professionals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That was the only organisation occupying the building, with massive rent being paid, and there was almost €1 million in terms of penalties and costs to get out of it. I understand the logic of breaking the lease - something similar happened in Galway - but is it not an absolute scandal that rent was paid at horrific cost and that there was a penalty to escape the lease? HIQA pays...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What is the cost of agency staff? How many staff are employed under that heading?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That has increased, has it not? The witnesses have given some reasons for the increase.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It has gone up significantly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is up significantly, is it not? The rent is detailed on page 28 of the accounts. The rent in 2015 was €1.5 million and in 2016 it was €1.238 million. Will the witnesses explain that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Lovely. That is why the figure is lower. What is the building service charge of almost €100,000? It is €94,703.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Who else is in the building?