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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I understand that. Basically, there is a rigidity. However, there is enough fluidity in the system that HIQA staff can change it when they want.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: How does that happen? Does it arise on foot of public complaints?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Effectively, there is a matrix.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I ask Ms Dunnion to write to the committee secretariat outlining the matrix and showing where it is documented because I have never seen it. I would genuinely like to see where it is documented that HIQA operates in this way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Will Ms Dunnion indicate where the information is to be found because I have not see it. I will write to Ms Dunnion separately on seeking historical information. This has consequences for the Committee of Public Accounts, which must account for taxpayer's money. The Government made a decision in respect of multi-occupancy rooms in nursing homes, which basically allows the use of such rooms...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Was HIQA upset by it? Does Ms Dunnion agree with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I am not saying that. I asked a simple question. Ms Dunnion was quite eloquent when responding to Deputy MacSharry. It would probably be easier if I were to ask Ms Dunnion whether she agrees with it. The knock-on effects in the context of taxpayer's money, public confidence and the HSE's budget are dramatic. As matters stand, there will be a process whereby HIQA will do its job and will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I would like an answer please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I agree with all of that. We have to assess how money will be spent. My question is whether HIQA will work within the directive?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I just want an answer to the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Before we go into private session, I asked last week for a list of Education and Training Boards, ETBs, and where we were as regards the Comptroller and Auditor General and their accounts for 2015 and 2016. Has that list been drawn up? We will be bringing the ETBs in at some point in time and I would like-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Another issue, which may not be for now but for next week, is the correspondence from Deputy MacSharry. Does the Chairman want to leave that until next week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: No, it is in regard to what happened-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: We will leave it until next week, so. He just asked me to raise it with the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Sorry, I have one last question. I also asked a question about the Benefacts organisation.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (3 Oct 2017)
Alan Kelly: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the savings that have been made through the merger of Tipperary north and south vocational education committees, VECs, into Tipperary Education and Training Board, ETB, in each of the years 2013 to 2016 respectively. [41350/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (3 Oct 2017)
Alan Kelly: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full working days the chief executive officer of Tipperary Education and Training Board, ETB, has worked in the head office in Nenagh since the appointment in July 2013. [41351/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (3 Oct 2017)
Alan Kelly: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of days the chief executive officer of Tipperary Education and Training Board, ETB, has been present in the head office in Nenagh since the appointment in July 2013. [41352/17]