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Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: We are referring to the funding specifically for Grace.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The sum of €600,000 was paid for past services.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is the sum of €120,484 which will be paid per annum an unusual payment for the HSE to make to a named person? Is that normal practice or is due to the individual circumstances of the Grace case?

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Are there other people in that situation? I presume the payment is for life.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: This is my last question. If there had not been a High Court case would Grace's situation have been brought to the current satisfactory solution? In other words, was the HSE brought dragging and kicking to provide this service for Grace for the rest of her life?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does the National Treatment Purchase Fund come under this heading?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It is not included under this heading.

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I, too, add my voice of compliment to Deputy Michael McGrath on tabling the motion and to Deputy McGuinness, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. Last week, the committee heard from a number of people who were wrongly refused mortgage tracker rates by their banks. We heard testimony from people who suffered strokes, nervous breakdown and...

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

Bobby Aylward: I will not delay proceedings very long because all the questions have been asked. All I want to do is inquire of Mr. McEnery whether the board understands why we are all concerned and why HIQA was brought back in here when the issue appeared in a Sunday newspaper and we found out about an obvious conflict of interest? In hindsight, does the board have any regrets about its position?

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

Bobby Aylward: Is that the reason we are here at all? This complaint came in because HIQA did not act and that is the reason all this came to light. Does Mr. McEnery have any comment to make on that?

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

Bobby Aylward: Does Mr. McEnery not see any problem with his being chairman of HIQA and head of health care with BDO Ireland and providing advice? Does he see any conflict there at all? I know he has told us he is not interfering in anything and that he has no capacity to interfere. We accept all that, but does he see no conflict there or that questions would arise over the two positions he holds?

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

Bobby Aylward: I accept that. For future reference, if Mr. McEnery was asked again to give a presentation to a body such as Nursing Homes Ireland, as he did in October 2015, would he reconsider his position or would he give that presentation if was asked? Would he inquire as to why he was being asked? In hindsight, would he look at it in a different way?

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

Bobby Aylward: This my final question. Could Mr. McEnery comment on the anomaly between what is the cost per resident between private and public nursing homes? As a politician, I have been told by private nursing homes that public nursing home care costs a lot more per resident than the private equivalent. Can the witness comment on that, in the context of his role as a financial adviser?

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

Bobby Aylward: I just wish to ask the question now that the witness is before us.

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

Bobby Aylward: That is no problem. I asked it because I thought the witness would not be before the committee again.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: They are all volunteers.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I might ask a few short questions.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I am sorry I was late and missed much of the presentation. We have a had a busy day here. We were here until lunchtime and I have had to do a few other things in between. I welcome the witnesses. For an agency that was set up only four years ago, Tusla has a big spend of €669.473 million in 2016. It is a lot of money for an agency that is only in its infancy. There is a heavy...

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: What is the structure of Tusla? Is it Dublin-based and then spread out around the country or is it regional or county based? I am from Carlow-Kilkenny. If I want to get in touch with Tusla in the morning, is there an office in Kilkenny or Carlow? It is doing an important job all over the country, but what is its structure? Is it like the HSE and based everywhere?

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It was stated that the 112 family resource centres were mostly privately run. Are they run by private concerns with which Tusla has contracts? What is the structure there?