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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Would you be able to get that figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Is funding being put in place so that parents can get a second opinion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: You said all of the cases would be reviewed as to whether there was a clinical need for the surgery to be carried out. Are you also looking at whether it was necessary to carry out the surgeries?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Is it just to assess the decision for surgery, not to assess whether the surgery was necessary?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Families need to know whether the surgeries were necessary.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Families are very unclear about what the process looks like, what is being looked at and what the outcome will be. Clarity is needed on that front.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: I am conscious that members may have supplementary questions. The witnesses are probably under time constraints. With their agreement, I will limit members to three minutes. If any of our witnesses needs a comfort break at any stage there is no issue in that regard. They can just indicate and let us know and we will suspend proceedings at any point. I will go back to our first speaker,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: I have a few concluding questions. On the consultant who was the focus of that review, a figure of €35,000 or thereabouts has been established. Were there attempts to recoup that as part of the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Can we get a specific breakdown of that €35,000 in costs? How much was that per clinic or per child seen? I turn to the children. It has been stated that the children are our focus and priority, and they absolutely have to be. However, there have been reports on the impact that process had and the delays in children accessing treatment. Has a review been carried out relating to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Reference was made that that process delayed treatment for some children by up to three years. Would that be accurate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Ms Kelly cannot see that but has a review been carried out to establish that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) John Brady: Okay, so there was no impact there. Those are all the questions I have. I thank all the witnesses for coming in today. That concludes our engagement with Children's Health Ireland and the National Treatment Purchase Fund. I thank Ms Nugent and her officials from CHI for attending. I also thank Mr. Gallagher and his staff from the National Treatment Purchase Fund for attending and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
John Brady: I remind all of those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are on silent or switched off. Before we proceed, I have a few housekeeping matters. I remind members of the constitutional requirements that to participate in public meetings, members must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex. Members of the committee attending remotely must do so from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
John Brady: It has been agreed that we will add Tusla to our work programme. To get some clarity from the C and AG before I call Deputy McAuliffe, who I think wants to come in on this, these are extraordinary levels of expenditure in terms of legal costs, and it appears that that is not the definitive cost at this point. Do we know how this has come to light? Was it a protected disclosure or a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
John Brady: Where these issues flagged with you in the course of your work, Mr. McCarthy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
John Brady: Were you looking to come in, Deputy McAuliffe? Anyone else? No? We will move on. Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Is that agreed? Agreed. The listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. The following B items of correspondence were considered. No. R0153 is correspondence from the Department of Education...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
John Brady: Is it agreed by members that we take that action, that we write back and seek clarification on those items? Agreed. No. R0187 is correspondence from the Minister for public expenditure. The committee agreed to note and publish that correspondence. That is agreed. No. R0188 was correspondence from the Department of Transport. The committee has agreed to write to the Department of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
John Brady: Is that agreed? That is agreed, members. Next week, the committee will meet with officials from the Health Information and Quality Authority to examine its financial statements for 2023. Officials from the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive will also be in attendance. The committee will return after the summer recess on 18 September, when it will consider the accounts...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
John Brady: We can do that. I call Deputy McGrath.