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- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is all. He is calling it either an interim report or a status update.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the witnesses. It strikes me that they are overstretched and understaffed, particularly if I consider the range of activities in which they are involved. Perhaps I might come back to the range of activities that has increased. All of us have just received a letter from Tallaght hospital, at which HIQA carried out a statutory inquiry in 2011 and 2017. As I only have a few...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I heard that. What is the total rent being paid? Is it over €1 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What is the precise amount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What about Galway?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was the authority also paying rent in Cork parallel with this rent in Dublin?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The Office of Public Works was paying rent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was it paying rent for that building in parallel with HIQA paying rent for the Dublin and Galway offices?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I thought the lease was broken.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What about the building that HIQA inherited?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was inherited in 2007.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is where the lease was broken. Am I correct in saying that the amount was over €1 million by the time everything was taken into account? Was it just under €1 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There was a penalty cost for breaking the lease, restoration costs and a cost to cover the eventuality of the building being surrendered. Are the witnesses telling me that, in addition to those penalties, the Office of Public Works was paying rent every year up to 2016 in parallel with HIQA paying rent on its building?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: My question is clear. Was the rent being paid on that building until the lease was broken?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was in addition to what HIQA was paying for its offices.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. That is clear. Why was the building not suitable for HIQA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Was it not all set out when HIQA took over that the building was too small?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There are parallel processes. A building remained virtually empty except for CORU, which regulates health and social care professionals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That was the only organisation occupying the building, with massive rent being paid, and there was almost €1 million in terms of penalties and costs to get out of it. I understand the logic of breaking the lease - something similar happened in Galway - but is it not an absolute scandal that rent was paid at horrific cost and that there was a penalty to escape the lease? HIQA pays...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What is the cost of agency staff? How many staff are employed under that heading?