Results 7,001-7,020 of 21,404 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Vacancies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: They are slightly different things.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: How shall we deal with the matter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Our function is to protect the legal rights of the citizens and taxpayers who pay into the nursing homes support scheme fund, otherwise known as the fair deal scheme, which finds its way to public, private and voluntary nursing homes and which has been the subject of considerable comment and controversy as we have said repeatedly in recent times. When private nursing homes interact with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The content of it is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Cathaoirleach-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Can I say in that regard-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, we will not. I object to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I strongly object to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I strongly object to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am very alarmed by Mr. Tadhg Daly's correspondence. It is regrettable that he will not be here to assist us with his inquiries. Mr. Daly will be aware that we wish to speak to him about a number of issues and newspaper accounts of a meeting that occurred in October 2015, which I understand he convened. These raise very serious issues. We understand that issues regarding using a...
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat. Can I presume that Mr. McEnery's statement is being published?
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is custom and practice. The last time Mr. McEnery was before us, he was wearing his National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, hat. He is welcome here this morning. How long has he been 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: 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.