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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: I know there is a list, but the HSE does not have a register of declarable interests.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Representatives from Beaumont Hospital were before the committee last week. They confirmed that 25% of the hospital's consultants have not complied with their SIPO obligations. Does Mr. Mulvany have an idea as to what the compliance rate is across the HSE?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: So 33% of people in the HSE who have SIPO obligations have not complied. We, as public representatives, must comply with our SIPO obligation to declare our interests. If I walk into the HSE today, I would find that one in three people has not bothered to fill out the form.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: What is the HSE doing to improve compliance?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: That is scandalous. If one in three people in the HSE is not complying with their SIPO obligations, it means they could potentially have a declarable interest or a conflict of interests which they are not declaring. I think I am correct in stating that non-compliant procurement accounted for more than 9% of the HSE's procurement spending.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: The HSE's procurement spend is massive. It has ballooned over the past three to four years. Would Mr. Mulvany agree that this is the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: On the IFMS, and I apologise for cutting across Mr. Mulvany but I am passionate about this and I want to see results, are there people in the HSE who are frustrating the IFMS being implemented because they do not want to see it implemented because they are happy with the way things are?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: That is very important.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: I thank the HSE for publishing all of its purchase orders involving amounts of more than €100,000 in one machine-readable format. It is very useful and helpful. Will Mr. Mulvany confirm that once the IFMS is fully integrated, purchase orders of more than €20,000 will be published for the whole of the HSE?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: That was confirmed to me in reply to a parliamentary question, and I appreciate it. I want to speak about the provider of €15 million worth of goods to the HSE. Somebody paid those invoices without confirming that the stock had been received.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Did they lose their jobs?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: Did they leave of their own-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: The HSE reckons it has lost €5 million to €7 million on this, and the people who paid out the invoices have just walked away. Is there any ongoing investigation into this matter?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: When Mr. Gloster says that they are not available, does he mean they have left the country?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: There are not 25 or 30 people who have left.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: One of the biggest frustrations the public has is in respect of accountability. We try to achieve that here. The problem now is that Mr. Gloster has told me that €15 million was paid to the company and the person who approved the payments has left the HSE and is not available. The public will not accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: I want to focus on Portiuncula hospital. I represent the constituency of Galway East. I was born in Portiuncula. My mother worked there. She was a GP. Portiuncula is part of the fabric of Galway.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: It serves a wider region comprising eight counties. There has been huge hurt and upset over the handling of the downgrading of maternity services at Portiuncula. I understand that when there are serious issues, a serious response is required. I just want to ask for clarity on a certain element of this.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: About two weeks ago, Dr. Martin Daly TD asked Mr. Gloster if the Walker report had been implemented. The response he received was that it had not. As a result, he went into the Dáil and asked a question of the Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill. Deputy Daly said it was not implemented but the Minister said that there was an independent HIQA review which confirmed that all...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Albert Dolan: I have listened to the Minister on this. She maintains that there are other level 3 hospitals with maternity services in the country at a similar resource level that are performing very well. Is it a resource issue in Portiuncula or is it a culture issue?