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Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: More than ten years? I was reading all about Mr. McEnery and saw a report in the Irish Medical Times which said that he was a national adviser to Nursing Homes Ireland, I think since the 1990s, but that he has had no involvement with the representative organisation for the private and voluntary nursing home sector since being appointed HIQA chairman by the Minister for Health, now Senator...

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why was Mr. McEnery at that meeting on 23 October 2015?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: He was not there as an adviser but he was, according to his own statement, providing financial advice.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We will come to that. Mr. McEnery's evidence to the committee today is that he is not the financial adviser to Nursing Homes Ireland.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: However, he was invited to a meeting, he attended and he gave financial advice.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: In his own words, in his own statement, he gave financial advice. He is dancing on the head of a pin. He was clearly acting in an advisory capacity to Nursing Homes Ireland.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Was Mr. McEnery given a fee for attending the meeting in October 2015?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. McEnery went as a-----

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. In Mr. McEnery's opening statement he makes no bones about the fact that he currently negotiates with the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, on behalf of nursing homes. I went to his professional profile on BDO Ireland's website, and he does not actually say that at all. He refers to the fact that he did, in the past, carry out those types of negotiations but it is not made...

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let me help Mr. McEnery because I have his profile from the BDO Ireland website here. It says that he undertakes a variety of assignments and "In 2009 and 2010 he worked with over 70 nursing homes preparing a cost model for each nursing home and negotiated rates with the National Treatment Purchase Fund". That is "negotiated" in the past tense. It makes no reference to the fact that he...

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will Mr. McEnery provide the committee with those minutes?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does it explicitly say that Mr. McEnery interfaces with the NTPF to negotiate prices for homes participating in the fair deal scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: No, it does not.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. McEnery.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think it was rather unclear, but we have now established that it is Mr. McEnery's function to carry out these negotiations. In his opening statement he referred to the fact that he speaks at many conferences. I do not doubt that he does. The October meeting, however, was not a conference.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have established that, but it was not a conference.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Daly invited Mr. McEnery to the meeting and Mr. McEnery came along. Who was at the meeting in addition to operators?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Who might they have been?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: What was the nature of the conversation? Mr. McEnery knows better than anyone that negotiations between individual nursing homes and the NTPF must happen on an individual basis. Is that not right?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is a very good reason for that, is there not?