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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That includes where in the hospital the incidents are happening and the circumstances involved.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is interesting that a very large number of incidents are reported. I know they are not all cerebral palsy cases or anything of that nature, and there is a much broader range of cases. I understand Mr. Breen was only giving that as an example. I speak to parents who have gone through litigation processes to secure funds for their children for the long term. In other cases, where there...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The parents to whom I speak feel that litigation is the only way they can get a dialogue with, or a response from, the hospital. Are there ways in which we can change the clinical indemnity scheme to require, where an incident is notified, that the patient or parents of the patient be notified, just as a matter of basic courtesy?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I totally agree. Has Mr. Breen found any of the hospitals resistant to that idea? It seems like such an obvious thing to do for the holistic care of their patients.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The media reporting might sit slightly against what Mr. Breen is saying. I do not wish to contradict him, but the experience of parents with hospital management in general, rather than with the State Claims Agency, is somewhat different. I am conscious that I have only 30 seconds. I do not know if we are getting a second round later on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I cannot think of anything to say. I will leave it at.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Chairman asked the question I intended to ask about corporation tax. Ireland and the NTMA have been successful in continuing to access the international markets. What is Mr. O'Kelly's perspective on that continuing? What risks might make it more difficult?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The opening statement the NTMA provided stated, "When the crisis hit, we had fiscal room when we needed it most and, in the years ahead we need to create that room again." Presumably, Mr. O'Kelly is inferring that we should create similar circumstances at that point.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. O'Kelly. I wish to ask Mr. Breen about the hospital accountability issues. During the break, I discussed this with some of my colleagues. It is obviously an issue of exceptional public interest given the risk to the young citizens of our State. With the financial risk to the State and the ongoing liabilities, it is one of the biggest issues that we face. Going back to the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How often does that happen?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Do they go back to the management or do they go back to the board?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Are the hospitals required to present the fact that that happened? That seems to be a serious thing to happen. Is the hospital management then held to account by the board? Does Mr. Breen have any oversight of that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If, for example, there are multiple incidents in the same year in the same hospital, would that raise flags within the State Claims Agency systems?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Recurring incidents of a similar nature would raise flags.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Breen mentioned earlier that across maternity, there are 26 or 27 cases of cerebral palsy on average. Obviously, there are incidents that result in outcomes other than cerebral palsy. That is not the universe of experience in any sense. Is that not very serious? Those are 26 children and 26 families who are impacted with their lives entirely altered. I am not suggesting this is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is important, but it does not make any difference to the individual family for whom an intervention three or four hours earlier might have had a very different outcome for the rest of their lives. However, I appreciate the broader point Mr. Breen has made.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are currently available to families with children in hospital; if consideration has been given to placing a social welfare officer on site at children’s hospitals to provide necessary information on exceptional needs payments and carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if further consideration has been given to examination of the thresholds for earning in relation to the qualification for the carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when regulations for affordable housing will be issued to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48774/21]