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

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses for being here. Their opening statement and contributions have been very informative, I appreciate that. I will start with Mr. Colfer. Is it correct that he, in his role, has powers of prosecution?

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

Aidan Farrelly: Mr. Colfer does in his role.

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

Aidan Farrelly: Given the experiences and reflections we have shared on the two Emeis properties, why are they still open?

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

Aidan Farrelly: There is still potential that those properties could close.

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

Aidan Farrelly: How many Emeis sites has HIQA visited since the RTÉ documentary was aired?

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

Aidan Farrelly: How many Emeis sites?

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

Aidan Farrelly: To carry on from Deputy Geoghegan’s point about the calibre of the inspectors, I have a query about the nature of those inspections. How many night-time inspections does HIQA complete? What would be the percentage, roughly?

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

Aidan Farrelly: Would the 24% of inspections that were out of ours have all been unplanned? The providers would not have been given notification that the inspectors would visit at, say, 9 p.m. or 10 p.m.? They would all have been unplanned? They were done on foot of a concern.

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

Aidan Farrelly: That information might come from a resident or a resident’s family or would it have to be from the provider itself?

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

Aidan Farrelly: Looking at the 2023 accounts, will Mr. Colfer elaborate on what seems to me to be a real reliance on agency staff? An average of €1 million has been spent each year over the last ten years on agency staff. Are they specifically investigators?

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

Aidan Farrelly: Who are the agency staff?

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

Aidan Farrelly: If it is averaging out at that every year for ten years, there must be trends. Would HIQA be better served making a request for a permanent position in that role rather than spending €900,000 in one year and €1.2 million the next year? It is a trend as opposed to a one-off.

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

Aidan Farrelly: As to that expertise, to what extent does HIQA have staff on the payroll with ICT expertise?

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

Aidan Farrelly: I accept that. With that assertion, does Ms Fitzgerald think the market has changed? For 2023, there were 55 incidents of purchase orders for ICT or consultancy services in that 12-month period.

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

Aidan Farrelly: We acknowledge that HIQA is being proactive in that regard, but it just does not seem to be sustainable. There is such a diversity, with many different companies and bodies doing what appears to be, in simplistic terms, similar work. Is there any potential conflict of interest in the organisations and companies HIQA is hiring? Everything is going through appropriate procurement processes....

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

Aidan Farrelly: When there is a former board chair that is part of a company that is part of these consultancy services, that provider is going through a transparent process.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (15 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional WTE local based staff, by job title, who were hired by the Department for the duration of the Osaka 2025 World Expo. [39127/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (15 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that the NTA takes in regard the provision of additional buses, LUAS and DARTs before and after major concerts are held in Dublin. [39128/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coast Guard Service (15 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 386. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on Greystones coast guard station and the expenditure to date on same, to include third parties and or consultancy. [39134/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (15 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 404. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trade mission to Australia is likely to take place before end of 2025. [39126/25]