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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister for her generic response. I remember the Hanley report and the Teamwork report. They were the reports that were put in place to justify creating the model 4 hospital in Limerick. The issue was the resources and the capital required were never put into it. The amount of funding for staff such as doctors, nurses and health professionals was never in tandem with what was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: He has heard it already.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: Another review. It is not about processes. It is about resources.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: He knows.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I agree with colleagues. We need greater transparency but I am not sure what the best process would be. We have to be sure that some of the breakdown of costs is not hidden behind construction inflation. We should write to the board of the national paediatric hospital about the three layers that have now been flattened. We should ask for an update on the status of the project because it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I may ask the committee to help in getting one or two bits of information from the board to assist in bringing about greater transparency. I will liaise with the Chairman on this point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I studied it. The figures were not a surprise to me, particularly as I had them near enough to what is outlined. It just goes to show that the hospital with the greatest issues, the highest level of overcrowding and the least flexibility as regards consultants going across the network group of hospitals is the one with the largest amount of private consultancy use. That all ties into why...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: To fill in the jigsaw, when we discussed that issue regarding Scally and the questions which came up as a result of information provided to the health committee last week, we found out through the Irish National Accreditation Board, the accreditation body for the labs, that from its accreditation of the famous Manchester lab, it looks like that was the missing piece of the jigsaw which would...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I would say it was the reason.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I cannot say that definitively.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: We still do not have full transparency on section 38 stuff. It is a time bomb It is a topic to which the committee should return. I know we spoke about potential special reports. This area is completely underfunded. There are loans being given out to these organisations but they do not call them loans.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: They would not function otherwise. They would close down and we would have a collapse of service across health care. It cannot go on. The trading scenarios here are unusual in some cases. It cannot continue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: The point raised by Deputy Murphy has highlighted an issue for me. In this correspondence reference is made to certain barristers’ legal fees. In regard to the Apple case, for some time now, through parliamentary questions and other formats, I have been trying to get the fees paid to certain barristers and information on whether they have any other public sector jobs and,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: Can the committee write to them and ask for a consistent approach and transparency with regard to the information I have requested?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am not sure that it is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: Can we also ask the Department of Finance to provide us with the information?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I will forward the relevant parliamentary question to the Clerk.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I concur 100% with the previous speaker. This correspondence does not reflect what the Secretary General stated to us here. We have met and dealt with this individual and listened honestly. We certainly got a strong feeling from the Secretary General that these issues would be dealt with in a humane and sensible way; they have not been. This letter is just a generic response to tick a box...