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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Bobby Aylward: If there were an issue such as I described, who would carry the can? Would it be BAM, the contractors or the design team that would incur the costs if something in the design were wrong? Who would have responsibility and who would carry the costs if something like fittings were wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Bobby Aylward: That would be BAM in this case.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Bobby Aylward: If there was anything wrong with the design of the building, who would take responsibility?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Bobby Aylward: The taxpayer would not be caught for any of those costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Bobby Aylward: That is why I am asking. It could fall back on the taxpayer again.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: I welcome Mr. Reid and his staff. The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General is nearly identical to his reports of 2001 and 2010. We all know that the ambition of primary care is to keep as many people as possible out of hospital and in their homes. We all know it seeks to ensure that people are cared for and treated as near as possible to their own homes without blocking up the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Why do they not have the diagnostics?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: If there has been a failure in the system's roll-out over the past 20 years, can a way to rectify that be identified? Is it down to money? Are GPs not interested in rolling it out? Is it down to structures or grant aid? What is the main failing? Why has it not been taken up more? The centres in Kilkenny, in my constituency, are working brilliantly and there are plans for more, but those...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: I wish to ask about the 127 centres that are up and running. Mr. Reid might not have this information off the top of his head. Where are they mainly based? Are they well spread around the country? Are they focused in Dublin and the other cities? Are there areas or counties that are very neglected in respect of primary care?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Are they well spread geographically?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: I want to move on to the different methods of rolling out private care, which include lease agreements, PPPs and HSE direct builds. Which of these methods is the most prominent? Which of them involves the best system? Which of them is the most effective? As we go forward, which of these methods will be of most use as we try to get the other projects - two thirds of the total - up and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: I ask Mr. Reid to explain each of them as he goes along. Which of them is the best? I presume the lease agreement method involves leasing a building. I understand what is involved in PPPs. Someone comes in from the private sector as part of a partnership. The HSE builds some of these facilities directly itself. I ask Mr. Reid to explain each of these methods. Which of them is the most...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Which is best for the taxpayer?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: I would like to ask about the level of interest among GPs. Some GPs throughout the country seem to be reluctant to get involved in PCCs. What kind of grant aid is there for a GP who wishes to set up in such a centre? I assume assistance is provided as part of the effort to get full primary care services in place. Is a certain percentage of the cost provided as grant aid to get people...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Is there no grant aid at all for setting up or building a primary care centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Does the HSE target centres of population? I presume a small village of a couple of hundred people would not have a primary care centre. Does the HSE focus on bigger towns with larger populations? Are certain areas targeted? What criteria are used when a decision is being made on whether a primary care centre should be rolled out in a certain area? What are the population criteria?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Naturally, if PPPs are involved, business people are there to make money. Does the HSE have a problem with such people targeting certain areas? There could be too many primary care facilities in a place like Kilkenny city and no primary care facilities in smaller towns where they are needed. Do people look at the potential footfall and profitability of projects? Can it happen that there...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Does the HSE provide a licence?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Can the HSE dictate where these are located?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019) Bobby Aylward: Last night, a colleague of mine asked me to raise the case of the centre in the Rowlagh area of Clondalkin. I do not know whether I can ask about individual centres. Planning permission has been given. It has been six years in the making, but no progress is being made now. Is it allowable to ask about an individual centre?