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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: To follow up on Deputy Connolly's question, did the Minister approve the cessation or pause of the audit? Does he know about it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Have no lessons been learned from this crisis about escalating key facts to the Minister? It would appear to be quite big news that we have ceased the audit that could lead to other revelations, as Deputy Connolly said.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: However, he does not know that it has ceased or paused.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: That did not emerge when Deputy Connolly asked her questions. Was there a clinical issue with the audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: We know there are 3,000 to be looked at but we have stopped looking at them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Like Deputy Connolly, I simply do not understand the psychology of pausing something that was working.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Internally, the Department believed it was not good enough and paused it. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Anyhow, Mr. Connaghan is going to give us a blow-by-blow account in writing on that issue. I welcome Mr. Connaghan back. This question is for him. Earlier in the morning we discussed the cervical cancer issue. I asked about disciplinary processes and procedures and so on. Mr. Connaghan said that after the Scally process there is an intention for a conduct investigation – I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: It sounds a bit bureaucratic to me. It was not a term I had heard before.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: The intention is for a conduct investigation to be commenced by the HSE following the Scally report. Is it Mr. Connaghan's intention to do that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Mr. Connaghan's choice of words was based on his UK experience. It is a disciplinary process. Theoretically, depending on the findings, it could lead to tangible sanction, whether suspension, dismissal or whatever.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: I thank Mr. Connaghan for clarifying that. Earlier, the HSE representatives mentioned that exit interviews are held with some exiting staff. Is that only at consultant level or does it apply at nursing level and to junior doctors and so on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Does it apply at all levels?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: What is the problem? Is it money, morale, treatment or facilities?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: I am more interested in the north west. We have the same problem there.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: What is the problem? What are the exit interviews telling us? Is it a matter of money, hours or the weather?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: We are just talking about the specific Wexford case. On the basis of these exit interviews it would be useful for the committee and the State generally if the HSE could correlate some of this information. The executive could tell us X% are leaving because of money and Y% are leaving because of facilities and so on. In that way, the committee could prevail upon the Department of Public...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: As Deputy Connolly said earlier, it is a crisis. If we have four jobs for every one applicant, then that is a problem. Certainly, there are examples in the north west. I imagine there are examples in every community healthcare organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: That would be useful.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018) Marc MacSharry: Does that compare favourably to the number of people completing their internships? What percentage of people who complete their internship are heading for Canada, Australia and elsewhere?