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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to raise something tangential to this. Where something happens in a hospital, and inevitably things do, there is an internal and external review. Claims often arise from these incidents but there is no record of those reviews. I raised this at the last meeting. For instance, in response to a question about external reviews - I did not ask about internal reviews - the Saolta Group...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Yes, an external review of something that happened. The case of Savita Halappanavar is the most obvious example.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: One would presume that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: It ties in if we are looking at the reviews and we need to know the costs, what arose and what has been learned from them. I am struggling to know where to go with the answer. It was a simple question and the response was clear that it had no record. The question related to the number of external reviews and the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I do not know but there is a simple question of how many external reviews have been undertaken in the last ten years, what did they cost and by whom were they carried out. That information should be readily available and passed on in terms of openness and accountability, and the information should be fed into the State Claims Agency, which ought to be aware of this. Otherwise, how can it do...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I will come back on that with a question and discuss it with the committee first as I could do with some help.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: That is a good development.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: We are awaiting the confirmation that they are now available.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: They are now available online.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I support that call. I have raised the matter with regard to computer expertise. What is happening is that there is less and less competition. That is the problem. There is less and less competition under the guise of more competition and we are struggling piecemeal with it so I would certainly welcome an opportunity to come back and deal with it in a more comprehensive manner. We are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I have a question about correspondence. We already dealt with it. It concerns correspondence from the Department of Education and Skills?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: PAC 32-I-118 - it concerns the publication of the minutes, which I welcome. Does that include-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 3 December.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Yes, the Chairman dealt with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Does the Chairman want the reference again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: 118 is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: I beg your pardon. Am I looking at the wrong thing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: We do not even need the letter. We welcome the publication of the minutes. Does that include the reports, like those that come from the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, that will not be published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: Would that meeting include the report that came before them from the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on the various ETBs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Catherine Connolly: It would probably not. Is it just the minutes at the moment?