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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I have a number of housekeeping matters with which I would like to deal now. Are all board members compliant with SIPO?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: On page 22 of the financial statement it is stated that the NTPF board had no dealings with bodies connected to any of the board members. How is that achieved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, so at every meeting, that happens ----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: -----and it is documented in the minutes that there were no disclosures at the meeting and so forth. There are no board members who have first cousins with three nursing homes or anything like that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is good. Has there ever been a protected disclosure within the organisation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: None has ever been made in any event.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Does the NTPF come under the remit of the SCA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is the agency handling any actions against the NTPF?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is that a reference to cases where a patient or resident takes an action?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: And the NTPF was asked to comment by the SCA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Right. The NTPF is not listed in any proceedings as codefendants or anything like that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I asked Mr. Tadhg Daly earlier about the additional charges that apply. Perhaps the HSE officials will answer this. An issue came up on my radar in respect of continence wear and a number of cases to do with the Brothers of Charity in Roscommon. Is Mr. Fitzgerald familiar with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It was pointed out earlier that under the contract, everyone gets three pads per day. I do not know how patients manage it. I certainly could not manage if I was told at six in the morning that I could only use the loo three times a day. However, charges were applied to patients for all continence wear for a period. There were protracted efforts for that money to be returned to them, some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am working on a number of issues relating to that centre but I imagine it is not unique. That is why I am asking Mr. Fitzgerald about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am interested in this and would appreciate if Mr. Fitzgerald would do that. Given the nature of it, it would be an issue if we are or have been illegally charging.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is important that people are paid back. We heard from Nursing Homes Ireland that the contracts that are signed at the beginning provide for three pads per day. Is that something the NTPF comes up with or is it HSE-driven?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It just sounds a bit mean.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I probably have loads more but it is late.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (12 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 730. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the provision of a primary care centre in Kinlough (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24897/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (12 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 1082. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the retrofitting of both audio and visual equipment to the Bus Éireann fleet in counties Sligo and Leitrim to assist persons who are deaf and visually impaired to travel independently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24925/18]