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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is the stage at which the HSE recognised it as a major risk not a key issue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: And to learn. If it was not included in the risk register until April this year-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I assume Mr. Connaghan did not make the decision on the audit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: To suspend it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Who made that decision?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Connaghan will do that in due course, rather than doing so now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That would be helpful, but I read in detail everything in the terrible memos. My understanding is patients were diagnosed with cancer and that as a result, an audit was carried out. It discovered that the result of the sample taken had either been misread or that it was a false negative. The process of the audit resulted in the women concerned finding out eventually. Now that there is no...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: But-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Perhaps I am missing something. I do not understand what women are to do in the meantime. The mistakes were picked up in the audit, even though, as I read it, it was for educational purposes. If there are no audits, how will mistakes be picked up?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It appears that somebody has made a decision to abandon the audit process, not because that process was defective but because the decisions in communicating the results of the audit process were highly defective.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It has been stopped.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: On the recruitment of nurses, the annual report gives an extraordinary figure on page 13 for the ratio of nursing jobs in Ireland to the number of nurses looking for them, which is four to one. Are there four jobs for every nurse or am I reading that backwards? The report says it is particularly difficult to fill specialist nursing roles.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is page 13 of the health service annual report, nursing recruitment. Will the witness comment on that? The report goes on to refer to a staffing pilot project in six hospital wards. I will finish on that question. Is the ratio of nursing jobs in Ireland to the number of nurses looking for them four to one?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is a huge deficit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is a crisis. I live in Galway and when two operating theatres closed in Merlin Park, we found out that St. Finbar's ward in the centre of excellence is closed. I have mentioned that we find out things by accident. A ward is closed in the hospital in Galway where there are huge waiting lists. When I ask why it is closed, I find it is an absence of staff. If there is an absence of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is a crisis.

Pathway to Redress for Victims of Convicted Child Sexual Abusers: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have no hesitation in supporting this motion and I thank Fianna Fáil for bringing it forward. The motion does not exclude people. It asks for certain people to be included. It is at the discretion of the Government to make it as broad as it wants. I took the trouble to get the European Court of Human Rights judgment and I have read it. I advise the Ministers to read it, not...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Ionaid Cúraim Leanaí Lán-Ghaeilge i gCeantair Gaeltachta: Díospóireacht (Atógáil) (4 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle maith ag na finnéithe go léir: an tUasal Mairéad Mac Con Iomaire, an tUasal Ray Mac Pháidín, an tUasal Mairéad Mhic Dhonncha, an tUasal Páraic Ó Gríofa, an tUasal Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh, an tUasal Mary Uí Fhaogháin, an tUasal Eithne Mhic Fhionnlaoich agus an tUasal Orlaith Ruiséal. Tá a fhios agam...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Ionaid Cúraim Leanaí Lán-Ghaeilge i gCeantair Gaeltachta: Díospóireacht (Atógáil) (4 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Ní ó Juncker ach ó dhaoine ar an Idirlíon ag rá go raibh mé drochbhéasach, agus is é seo ag labhairt le duine ón Eoraip a bhfuil taithí na mblianta aige. Níl mé ag labhairt fúm féin ná faoin bhfear ach ag rá cé chomh casta is a léirigh an t-aisfhreagra an chás ó thaobh na Gaeilge de. Cheap...