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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We have three other speakers to put questions, but we will take a response from Mr. Quinn before coming to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Was that governance review to involve the HSE or just the hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Why was that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Has Mr. Quinn a view on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. Quinn agree that it is regrettable that there was a public exchange between HIQA and the HSE regarding the report, and that it should not really have got to that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Given that it has not changed substantially, in Mr. Quinn's opinion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It looks bad to have two State bodies engaged in a type of discourse, or whatever one wants to call it, that reflects badly on the whole process. That is my opinion as Chairman of this committee. I accept Mr. Quinn's point that he did not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Will Ms Dunnion explain that point, please, in simple terms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The report states that two months earlier the assessment had not been given but Mr. Quinn noted in his opening remarks that the hospital did not have a strong safety culture.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In regard to the 16% figure for complaints, is that why the report did not definitively express confidence in the safety of the hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In regard to the experience of the families and how they were treated, has that culture and practice changed? Am I correct to say that a new process was put in place automatically?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I acknowledge it is not Mr. Quinn's specific responsibility.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: That was not my question. We accept all of that but I am asking whether the practices and culture which resulted in these families being treated in a certain way have ended.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There are five other speakers indicating, including two Members who are not on the committee. I will start with Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, then call Senator Colm Burke and Deputies Seamus Healy, Lucinda Creighton and Sean Fleming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We will now take questions from non-members of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: On the point regarding the State Claims Agency, the committee has concluded a report on medical indemnity. One of proposals in that report relates to the HSE's policy around open disclosure. Deputy Fleming has made a good point. When will we see action and accountability in regard to all of this? If this is not about being patient-centred, and if "Prime Time" had not produced this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does a culture of being more proactive than reactive exist within the HSE? That is the key question. We can deal with issues in our committees, but if that culture has not changed, or is not about to change, then we are beating our heads against a brick wall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. Quinn not see HIQA, as the regulator, as having a role in saying that services are unsafe or safe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Ms Dunnion says there was a plethora of correspondence. Who was the correspondence between?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does HIQA make recommendations to the HSE?