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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: At this stage Deputies Connolly, Catherine Murphy, MacSharry and O'Connell have indicated. This debate is a continuation of a topic that we discussed here last year. We did not to complete it because there was so much information being sought from the HSE on the number and category of claims. We sought information for the public watching by hospital in an effort to see whether hospitals...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will ask a few short questions before the Deputies contribute. Mr. Lynch might not know this off the top of his head but perhaps he could send us a report on the number of category 1 incidents. While the numbers involved are small, these are the most catastrophic cases which result in major claims down the road. Mr. Lynch described the increase in reported incidents as a good thing and a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will make one further comment before handing over to Deputy Connolly. Mr. Lynch mentioned the clinical risk forum. The former chief executive of the HSE, Mr. Tony O'Brien, was before this committee 14 months ago, shortly after the Vicky Phelan case became public, and we asked him about that. He was the chief executive and he said he was not aware of that issue at all. We then sought to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is clinical risk not a HSE function?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Clearly, people in the HSE were familiar with the cervical cancer issue because it was going before the High Court. Yet, there did not seem to be any communication within the HSE for that to be known at senior level.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: The problems start in the HSE. We want the HSE to take more ownership. The view seems to have been that since the agency handles all the cases and gets all the legal documents and discovery, the minute a case comes in it is over to the agency. This lack of communication has contributed to the lack of adequate learning. The HSE only learns when the case is over. If the chief executive...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Lynch stated that he met several people. That was not in the medical context. What was the context?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Lynch because he is saying what we have been saying. It is good to hear someone in the HSE voicing the same concerns that have made their way into the public arena. The fact that Mr. Lynch is voicing these concerns appears to be recognition of some of the issues about how cases were or were not dealt with over a period. Deputy Connolly, Deputy Murphy, Deputy MacSharry and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am obliged to say that we cannot accept that because I, as Chairman, cannot guarantee it will be kept private if it is sent into the Oireachtas. I am being truthful. It is disappointing. If Mr. Breen provides a figure to Oireachtas Members, it will appear in the public domain thereafter. I do not want to compromise the agency's handling of cases by publishing a figure that could give...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is my difficulty too in not being able to accept it because I do not want the Oireachtas to be a conduit for information getting into the public domain.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am sorry. We can talk about this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: We could go into private session for two or three minutes so that Mr. Breen could speak to us without supplying any documentation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: There is time for a final question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Sorry to interrupt. A vote has been called in the Chamber on a particular amendment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: It was about glass blocks in the prison and Garda stations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: A vote has been called, Deputy. I will explain to the witnesses what is happening. We will finish this session entirely in the next moment or so. If we can return immediately after the vote, we will take a final run through the periodic payments question. We will do it very quickly because there is a debate on issues concerning wards of court in the Dáil shortly. We want to have our...