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

Albert Dolan: For clarity, when Ms Hardiman realised the Minister was not going to approve her reappointment as CEO, did she take legal action at that point to secure her future in the organisation?

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

Albert Dolan: Did Ms Hardiman take legal action?

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

Albert Dolan: Why did Ms Hardiman feel the need to take legal action? Had she not served her time in the ten-year period she was there?

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

Albert Dolan: Ms Hardiman was then selected for the role of strategic director on the exact same pay as the CEO. What strategic gaps existed that justified the creation of that position?

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

Albert Dolan: That legal issue cost the State €120,000.

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

Albert Dolan: The Chief State Solicitor had to pay €120,000 to rectify the legal issue that was brought forward by Ms Hardiman, which led to the mediation and ultimately led to her being put into a role-----

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

Albert Dolan: The Chief State Solicitor's office paid €120,000 for that.

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

Albert Dolan: Who was in that role before Ms Hardiman?

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

Albert Dolan: This was a new role.

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

Albert Dolan: Was it a new role?

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

Albert Dolan: Was the board influenced by the fact that it had been dealing with Ms Hardiman for the previous ten years?

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

Albert Dolan: The last time the CEO, Ms Nugent, was here, I asked her whether she felt that Ms Hardiman had the same responsibility now as the latter did when she was CEO. Obviously, as a strategic director, Ms Hardiman does not have responsibility for the thousands of people or more than €600 million budget. Does Ms Hardiman feel her wage is justified?

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

Albert Dolan: I appreciate Ms Hardiman attending and I know it is an employment law matter, but it is really hard for the public to accept that somebody who was in the CEO role for ten years had finished up her duty and has now come back in a strategic director role. It does not aid the image of CHI or the culture that we have issue with. Speaking of CHI, something that is of major concern for me - I...

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

Albert Dolan: I have one question. What are the biggest issues facing the transition team now before handing over the keys and how is it planned to resolve those before getting the keys?

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

Albert Dolan: On this round of questioning, I would like to speak directly to the NTPF. In the last few weeks, I have undertaken a body of work to write to every single competent authority and State body to see if they are meeting their obligations when it comes to publishing purchase order data on their websites. Is Ms Brady aware of my correspondence to the NTPF on 17 June?

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

Albert Dolan: I wrote to the NTPF, and it was not to single it out as I wrote to all State bodies and entities. It has been a very fruitful exercise. Essentially, many of the State bodies have not been publishing their data, the NTPF included. The data may be there but it has not been published on the NTPF website. I appreciate the NTPF coming back and emailing me to commit to publishing this data,...

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

Albert Dolan: It is in relation to specific NTPF money. The NTPF money comes to the hospital. Who did the NTPF pay it out to? Can we get a list from largest to smallest of that? Do the witnesses have a date as to when the NTPF is going to have its purchase order data online? I will say that the NTPF was not the only public body that was not doing it and I appreciate its commitment to do it from now on.

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

Albert Dolan: Is there a timeline?

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

Albert Dolan: Just so I am clear, nobody is tracking the NTPF money once it hits the hospital.

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

Albert Dolan: Nonetheless, right now, Ms Nugent could not tell me who got paid the most money from the NTPF last year. The NTPF can tell me which hospital got paid the most but Ms Nugent could not tell me which individuals got the most.