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- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Good. I just want it clarified. Lots of things have been said over many years. Mr. O'Brien's conclusion has been very ably gone into by Deputy Cullinane. Mr. O'Brien's letter dated 26 September 2017 was sent to Mr. Lenihan. Mr. O'Brien speaks directly about the Deloitte report when he states, "Consequently, the Service Provider was not treated either unfairly or disproportionately when...
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is good that he is clear. How did the High Court case arise? Who took the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: No, just say.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Nothing hangs on this matter. I simply want to know who brought the case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Good. A case was taken on that person's behalf. We are not going into any of that. As part of the settlement a figure in or around €600,000 was allocated, as part of an overall package, for her care in the previous years, to pay for the care that she had received. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Good. Is Mr. O'Brien seriously telling the Committee of Public Accounts today that the health executive provided sufficient funding for the care of Grace, in that service provider, from 2009 onwards, and that the HSE magnanimously gave €600,000 on top of that in addition to providing for her? Is that what he is telling us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Does Mr. O'Brien accept that the health executive did not provide sufficient funding for this service provider for the very special case and very special person that they had under their care?
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I shall simplify the matter. The service provider took over the case of this special person. Subsequently, there was a retrospective allocation for her care. I read from that, as would any person listening or watching, the retrospective allocation was made because insufficient funding had been provided for her care, from the health executive to the service provider. Does Mr. O'Brien now...
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: This has been explained many times by Mr. O'Brien. I am under no illusion, no more than any other person, about the case, who took it and the settlement. I am specifically talking about the piece of the settlement that was paid to the service provider that did not take case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: No. I want-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Brien can take as long as he wants to answer but I need to ask my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I did not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Through the Chair, leaving out what Mr. O'Brien has said and I am not going into it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am taking a specific part of that settlement that went to the care provider - the service provider.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am asking Mr. O'Brien. What I have read from his answer is, "No, we are not acknowledging that this was because we underfunded the service. That is because we decided to take a particular review of a case." I put it to him that clearly, it was an acknowledgement that it was an underfunding of the service because it was not like any other service. It had a very special person in its care...
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The Chairman can-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What is relevant for us is the section. That is my question. I do not want the issue hidden behind something else.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Great. He can take all the time he wants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There is no difference. I will not take the time of my colleagues, but that reply was evasive. I would go so far as to say "shocking" in its deliberate evasiveness. I will leave it at that for my colleagues.