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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I did not hear it mentioned.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to clarify a few things. Mr. Daly is the CEO of Nursing Homes Ireland. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Is that a paid position?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Daly prepared to state his salary?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Why is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: There is a board of directors. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Are they paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Daly prepared to say how much the chairman is paid?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I ask because it is unusual to have representatives of a private body before us. The witnesses have talked a lot about transparency, openness and accountability, words we use here every week. I am asking them these questions in that context. There is a legal maxim and general saying that one comes to equity with clean hands. If one is demanding openness and accountability from an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: For one organisation, but we know precisely the salaries of everybody in the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the Health Service Executive. We had their representatives here today and it is all open and accountable. The witnesses' organisation is a for profit body. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: The representative body is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that, but, by and large, nursing homes are run to make a profit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: And make a profit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Let me reassure Mr. Daly, first, that 80% of the service is provided by private homes-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I understand we are reliant on them; therefore, let me praise them. It is not my preference, but my preference is not important. However, that is the reality. I would, however, prefer to see a ratio of 50:50. As somebody who collected 24,000 signatures to try to keep a public nursing home in Galway open, I am disappointed that the State has pulled out of the provision of nursing homes. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Therefore, the aim in providing a service is also to make a profit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: They are charities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Will Mr. Daly, please, listen to me? I can only ask questions for a little while.
- Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Connolly: They are not charities.