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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: What impact did that have on the hospital in general?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Am I correct that three members joined and left the board within the same six- or eight-month period? That would not strike me as a natural churn.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: There are significant IT works in various status of process and change, such as the BHIS system. Am I correct that that is finished and completeand award winning if my research is right?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I congratulate Ms Coyle on that. Significant IT projects are ongoing. There are potentially €128 million worth of claims outstanding and HIQA reports that identity concern about infrastructure, such as the status of the ED project or some of the other infrastructure. The nub of what I am trying to get at is that the finance, capital and IT committee seems to only have had a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (7 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has assessed whether publishing the estimated contract value for public procurement tenders inflates final bid prices; whether alternative approaches, such as value bands or undisclosed ceilings have been considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53772/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Procurement Contracts (7 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has updated public procurement guidelines in the context of public bodies purchasing goods and/or services produced and/or developed by Israeli companies. [53533/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses for staying with us. I will come back to the welfare checks and the 42,000. I am really open to the witnesses telling me that I am wrong. If I am then please do tell me. My concern is growing in terms of the breadth of work that is going to be consistent within these checks. Am I right to say that not one check has started yet? Yes. Right. I nearly failed maths...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I note on the information provided that there are approximately 5,300 whole-time equivalent staff within the agency at this point. That has been growing relatively impressively over the past five years. I have a curiosity within my spokesperson brief, if the information is available, to get a detailed breakdown of the types of roles of employees within the organisation. Perhaps someone...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: In terms of the types of social care workers, social workers, and who is doing what.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Apologies; I missed that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Is the information also there with regard to agency provision and agency staff numbers?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Has a costing ever been done of a comparison between the cost of agency staff versus others? My concern here is that the nature of our work with children and young people requires building relationships.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: If and when we have agency staff, quite often the relationship is not there to the same extent.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Can I ask one more question, if the Chair does not mind? It has been great to have this back and forth. I really appreciate it. I have one brief statement. The narrative seems to be kind of evolving on this side around the cost-benefit analysis of €750,000 per child in a special care arrangement. I have no direct experience of working in a setting like that myself but I have...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: We have seen the media reporting today that there is yet another delay in the delivery of the national paediatric hospital. This is the 16th delay. Over 2,100 bedrooms are currently not compliant. There are 63,000 issues on the snag list. When does the Government envisage that the keys of the paediatric hospital will be given over? What impact will yet another delay have in terms of...

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I welcome the officials and apologise for missing some of the opening statements. It is a privilege to be here this morning, given the breadth of experience and knowledge in the room on an issue that is of such grave importance. We all have different responsibilities with regard to children and child poverty. I do not doubt the credence that everyone in this room gives to it. The opening...

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: That opening statement identifies the most cost-effective way the ESRI has considered as that second tier of child benefit. I am the furthest from being an expert in this area. How complicated does Dr. Doorley believe it is to roll out a system like that?

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: For Mr. Egan and Mr. O'Toole, the Taoiseach and the Minister over this year have spoken about the work undertaken by the Department in respect of a second tier of child benefit. Could the officials outline what some of that work has looked at to date?

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I may be putting words in Mr. Egan's mouth and I do not want to do so. I am not trying to critique policy, but it is fair to say there is acceptance that the one-off and short-term payments do not really leave a legacy in terms of impact on child poverty. In the absence of accepting those as a way, I am not getting confidence here that in budget 2027, when more time has been allowed to...