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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: To be clear, it related not to trolley numbers but, rather, to rates of influenza. It was not triggered by a particular number of trolleys.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Is there a guideline for that trigger or is it just a judgment call by a particular team?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: My final question relates to the performance of CHO 3 in Limerick hospital over recent months and the ongoing fundamental issues in that area. Some members of my family live in Limerick. There is a general feeling in the region that people do not even try to attend the emergency department in Limerick hospital now. Is the HSE undertaking a review of that CHO in the context of what needs to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I apologise for interrupting, but I am asking about the CHO because we have just established that failures relating to the primary care system and to accessing other services often lead to people presenting at emergency departments. We can include the hospitals in this question. Is the HSE undertaking a fundamental review of services in the region?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: In that case, the HSE is perfectly happy with the operation in that area at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The HSE has not, however, identified that area as needing attention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: We have admission avoidance already just by dint of nobody wanting to go.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome the witnesses. I want to focus on flooding and flood prevention. I ask the witnesses to outline for me what the OPW's value-for-money measures are regarding passing ongoing flood works. What would be standard? I only have ten minutes so I ask the witnesses to do that in a relatively succinct way.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What about after construction?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am asking if, after the completion of a flood project, the OPW goes back to look at value-for-money measures and whether the project was effective, along with doing an assessment to ensure the risk of flooding has been dissipated in these areas and has not had an unforeseen impact somewhere else.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I ask Mr. Buckley to outline that for me relatively quickly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What does "continuously" mean? Is that every 18 months or every three years, for example? The OPW is also tasked with collating flood maps or data; is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What is the timing of that? Let us say the OPW finishes a significant project-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It is hourly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What happens if the design has not been effective?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What about Skibbereen?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I have a few examples but let us take Skibbereen. There was a significant flood there in 2009 when 120 homes were flooded. Then a major project was done in 2016. From what I can see the number quoted for the project was €18 million, although I notice in the numbers we have received today that it is €34.5 million. Then there was a significant flood in 2020. The original...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: We could take other examples, but it is useful to have a real-world example.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Would Mr. Casey describe that as fluvial-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It is fluvial flooding then, not coastal flooding.