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Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Daly did not send them to Mr. McEnery.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, we have limited time. Mr. McEnery has made the point that he was a guest. That was his statement here. Mr. McEnery also said that he was at the meeting but that he left it before any decisions were taken. Is he sure that is the case?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Again, that is not what is reflected in the minutes of the meeting to which we all have access. The minutes do not suggest that Mr. McEnery arrived late to the meeting, that he was anything other than an active participant in it or that he left early for whatever reason.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We are all aware of what is in the minutes and that is not what is reflected in them.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: For the purposes of the record, it should be recorded that the minutes to which we are both referring were recorded by a legal person and signed off in that person's name. I am sure any suggestion that there are inaccuracies, whether by accident or design, would be greatly resented by the person who took the notes.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How many nursing homes does Mr. McEnery represent?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: On behalf of how many nursing homes does Mr. McEnery interact with the National Treatment Purchase Fund?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How can Mr. McEnery state that there is no conflict of interest in him providing nursing home owners with financial advice, including advice on negotiating with the NTPF and him being chairman of the regulatory authority?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. McEnery advise large groups of nursing homes, possibly newcomers to the market that might be in the business of acquiring small, private, traditional family-type operations?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Has Mr. McEnery found himself in the position whereby he would be advising and providing a client with financial advice in regard to the acquisition of a nursing home that is in difficulty, perhaps because it has fallen foul of the new regulatory standards?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: To acquire small operations, family-type businesses, that might have got into financial distress for whatever reason, including that they might not have been able to keep pace with the new regulations around standards and occupancy levels and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Would some of that advice be given to, for instance, Seneca Healthcare?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Seneca Healthcare a client of BDO?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. What about Letsbuyhealthcare?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. Mr. McEnery does not see a conflict of interest in him, as the chairman of the regulatory board, individually providing financial advice to either a nursing home or more large corporate groups in the context of the apparatus of the fair deal scheme and the crash, during which time the nursing homes were under massive financial pressure, and to the big players that came into the market...

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. McEnery the only person from BDO on the board?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who is the other person?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is he also an adviser to the healthcare sector?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I presume he does not have a conflict of interest either.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. McEnery. I am astonished at his persistence in decrying conflict of interest when it is obvious. The fact that he was at the October meeting - we can dispute what he said and why he said - crystalises and demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt his absolute conflict of interest. I do not believe that he should be the chairperson of the board of HIQA. In fact, I do not believe...