Results 41-60 of 893 for speaker:Aidan Farrelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 927. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant vascular surgeons based at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [39122/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 928. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists, by grade based at bray primary care centre in each the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [39123/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: 929. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of persons who were waiting for HSE home support in County Kildare for June in each of the years 2022 to 2025 respectively, in tabular form. [39124/25]

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning. It is wonderful to have an opportunity to learn about the work of Tusla. I was a professional youth worker for about 20 years and worked in communities as Tusla emerged. I commend the work of the staff on the ground right up to senior management on the missions in transforming the idea or reputation of the service. That is true and it has...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I do not doubt that for a second. I have seen that first-hand and I completely agree that the competence on the ground is there. It frustrated me to see that yesterday, when we see such regular briefings about 400 children potentially going without a social work allocation or see continuous news cycle pieces about under-resourcing. We just need to make sure that the-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Can we ask specifically who else was in receipt of that outside of the NTA, just so that we can keep track?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank the witnesses for joining us this morning. If they do not mind, I am going to pick up on Deputy Geoghegan's points on CEO positions. What I am struggling to get my head around a little is that despite the policy of the Government and Department on not wanting to extend CEO contracts automatically, we hear there is legal entitlement to extend them. I am not talking about any...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Who is that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I am conscious that Mr. Moloney does not want to speak about that other person. Are legal proceedings under way in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: There was correspondence from the Department to CHI indicating that, as part of the sanction for the role of strategic director, another national director post in the HSE had to be suppressed. What does that mean?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I was trying to understand it from the correspondence. Is it the case that one position was lost across the entirety of those positions within the HSE because another position had to be created in CHI?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Yes. In that correspondence it was also suggested that having regard to the potential ongoing legal and operational risks the Department needed to be assured that this was the most economically cost-effective outcome. Is Mr. Moloney assured that was the outcome?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I am concerned about the policy implications of the fact that we have had to suppress a director role in another HSE department. There is a hypocrisy between the policy and the legislation. Do we not face a significant issue, whereby we could lose multiple HSE directors or similar roles if multiple CEOs decide to avail of that entitlement, which is their right? Policy is meant to be the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: The Minister refused the extension for this role on multiple occasions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I thank Mr. Moloney very much for that. I will not ask him about specifics with regard to the national development plan, but who is involved in the negotiation process? Does he share my concern that it is politically vulnerable in terms of cost effectiveness and the policy on public procurement? Is there a risk with the national development plan as it stands, and the negotiation process,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: Is there a risk with premature announcements or the position some are taking to the balance between value for money and procurement? I refer to the case of commitments being made without any sort of business case being put or feasibility study being undertaken.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: I have another quick question. The Minister reported in April that a task force was being set up to tackle the slow pace of infrastructural provision and that expertise from Uisce Éireann, EirGrid and the ESB would come to the table, meet on a monthly basis and report in July. Could he provide an update on the status of the task force? Has it met, how often and has the report been...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: We will not hold Mr. Moloney to that.