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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Ms Quinn for that suggestion. It is a very interesting one which we might pursue.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. Thank you very much for that answer. We have reached the end of this session. I apologise for the interruptions and thank Ms Quinn and Mr. O'Brien for taking the time to talk to us tonight. It was a very useful conversation. That concludes the session. We will adjourn until 12 October when we will continue our discussions on the film credit.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The parameters and the stages of-----

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (4 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 132. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of his Department in relation to setting terms of reference for the upcoming Citizens' assembly on drugs. [48623/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on setting-up an independent review of radiation therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48190/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (4 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the breakdown of spending announced in 2021 in Budget 2022 for disability services; the amount that was spent out of the full allocation; the areas to which this expenditure went; if any expenditure is being reallocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48626/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (4 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the breakdown of measures announced in Budget 2023 for disability services in terms of the additional number of persons who will receive services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48627/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (4 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 723. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the breakdown of spending announced in 2021 in Budget 2022 for mental health; the amount that was spent out of the full allocation; the areas to which this expenditure went; if any expenditure is being reallocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48628/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (4 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 724. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the breakdown of measures announced in Budget 2023 for mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48629/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome our witnesses. As Deputy Catherine Murphy mentioned, we are holding this session so we can do a deep dive into particular CHOs. I would like to direct my questions to the senior national management present and to the Department because we have done a little work on the CHOs across a number of committees. In the past decade, the HSE invested only €428,000 in upgrades to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: To be honest, I do not want to hear from the CHO. I want to hear from senior management whether they stand by the setting aside of clinical advice and the running into the ground of a building that could have been held onto?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry, and I do not wish to cut across Mr. Reid, but just to be clear, the reason the HSE is not giving people a time limit is because of the very hard work of some local representatives and the families. The HSE did give them a time limit originally, which was three months.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That decision sets aside all best practice in terms of our national policies and clinical advice. In July and August this year, after an intervention from the Information Commissioner, I eventually received a large volume of freedom of information, FOI, records which, by the way, I was told at first did not exist. Within the records we found evidence of two senior clinicians from different...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: How would Mr. Reid describe this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is fantastic. Can Mr. Reid provide me then with the clinical process and decision-making of closing the Owenacurra centre? That is how he proves he is not moving people around like chess pieces. He proves it by providing transparent minutes of the decision-making. These people were living there for more than a decade.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Then why did the HSE underinvest in the building for more than a decade and invest more than €3 million in ward-based settings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. That is a fair answer. I would like to now turn to the Department. The HSE very clearly said just now that it is prioritising settings for 24-hour mental health placements that are directly in contrast to our national policies and what we know is best practice for patient care. At what point does the Department step in here when it is very obvious the HSE is not doing its job in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, so does St. Stephen's Hospital offer a better quality of care for these people than the Owenacurra centre did, if it had not been actively run into the ground?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry, but I want to be clear on how the Department sees the HSE investing far more than €3 million in settings such as St. Catherine's ward and St. Stephen's Hospital. Some of the clinical specialists in the area voiced concerns. It was inspected three times by the Mental Health Commission in December 2021 and March 2022. The lead inspector, Dr. Susan Finnerty, said: I was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I know I am at the end, Chairman. However, Ms McArdle is-----