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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla - Child and Family Agency (17 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does Mr. Jeyes do the lotto?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Irish Blood Transfusion Service: Chairperson Designate (17 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome Professor Staines. This is most academic indeed. He has been the chair of the IBTS over the past three years and I am at a loss to understand why the Minister thinks we should be having a chat with him. We wish him well and continued success in his role on the board of the IBTS. Among the priority issues he signalled today, I ask Professor Staines to address over the next number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Irish Blood Transfusion Service: Chairperson Designate (17 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will close to give the Senator a brief moment before he runs helter-skelter to make it to the Seanad Chamber. I thank Professor Staines for listening to me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Irish Blood Transfusion Service: Chairperson Designate (17 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Without charge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Irish Blood Transfusion Service: Chairperson Designate (17 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We wish Professor Staines well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Chairman is certainly speaking on behalf of the committee in expressing our collective disappointment that the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group is not coming before us today. I find it absolutely unacceptable. I do not believe that its coming before the joint committee would in any way compromise the investigation that is under way, or indeed any other investigation in matters pertaining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is there an indication as to when that might be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome Mr. Cullen here this afternoon and thank him for his presentation and for his willingness to answer questions. We are told a dossier was presented to the Minister last September that referenced seven hospitals, which were not named, to my best knowledge. I understand a number of those are taxpayer-funded, while some clearly were not. Could Mr. Cullen advise us whether the Beacon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, and that it is, of course, under investigation. Whether one is in the private health business or the public health sector, as are the others before us here today, this is absolutely unacceptable in any shape or form and is a very serious matter. I will conclude on that and I would appreciate Mr. Cullen's responses at the appropriate time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Mr. Woods for his address and his colleagues for also attending. Regarding the dossier that we have already referenced and that the Minister received last year in respect of a number of hospitals, it was said at the time and since, most recently in the context of the "Prime Time" programme, that the allegations contained in the dossier were worse than those presented in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I remember what Mr. Woods said a few moments ago. He mentioned the Beacon Hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Chairman to allow me to clarify the point-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----with Mr. Cullen because I asked him the question earlier. He is still in the bear pit and I hope it is okay for me to ask the following question again. Was he surprised to find that the Beacon Hospital was named in the evidence given by Mr. Woods this afternoon as one of the entities or hospitals involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Are these the hospitals that were referred to the HSE in September of last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What reference did Mr. Woods make to the Beacon Hospital and the Bon Secours Group? My understanding was that they were the missing pieces, which is what I asked him. We had identified Mullingar and St. Columcille's hospitals. Mr. Woods has clarified again that St. Vincent's Private Hospital was the third of five.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Then I asked Mr. Woods for the other missing pieces, and he named the Bon Secours Group-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and the Beacon Hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I can see Mr. Cullen is greatly relieved to hear that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I withdraw my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am very unimpressed with the decision of representatives of the St. Vincent's Hospital Group not to attend the meeting. Nevertheless, I do not for one moment doubt the veracity of the group's statement on the back of last week's television programme in which it states that there was no investigation under way in the group's private hospital with regard to the report made by the...