Results 7,101-7,120 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is Seneca Healthcare a client of BDO?
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. What about Letsbuyhealthcare?
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. Mr. McEnery does not see a conflict of interest in him, as the chairman of the regulatory board, individually providing financial advice to either a nursing home or more large corporate groups in the context of the apparatus of the fair deal scheme and the crash, during which time the nursing homes were under massive financial pressure, and to the big players that came into the market...
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. McEnery the only person from BDO on the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who is the other person?
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is he also an adviser to the healthcare sector?
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I presume he does not have a conflict of interest either.
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. McEnery. I am astonished at his persistence in decrying conflict of interest when it is obvious. The fact that he was at the October meeting - we can dispute what he said and why he said - crystalises and demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt his absolute conflict of interest. I do not believe that he should be the chairperson of the board of HIQA. In fact, I do not believe...
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: October 2009
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The issue of charges is entirely separate-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: To summarise, notwithstanding everything else that has been addressed, Mr. McEnery has confirmed that he attended a meeting convened by Nursing Homes Ireland on 23 October 2015. He confirmed that at that meeting a matter of boycott of the fair deal scheme was discussed and he has acknowledged that, on the basis of that meeting, an investigation by competition authorities is now under way....
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Boycott was discussed.
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Boycott was discussed and an investigation is now under way. Whatever the witness might say about the distinctions between HIQA and the NTPF, we all understand that architecture. However, for the witness to suggest that it was in any way tolerable for the chairman of the board of HIQA to attend and speak and give advice, insights or experience at a meeting whose subject was the boycott of...
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The discussion took place at the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not accept that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I too would like a sense of the costs associated with the Taoiseach's political staff and advisers. The Taoiseach might provide that to us. Nick Millar is a communications person. Is that correct? There are two press secretaries. What are they doing? What relationship do they have, if any, with the strategic communications unit? Where is the division of labour? I want the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (17 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The abolition of the Seanad is a well-trodden path which then turned into the reform of Seanad but none of the above has happened. I do not detect any great political appetite or urgency for dealing with the issue. My questions, much like the previous speaker, are around when all of this will be actioned and who will chair the implementation group. There have been 12 separate reports...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe an M50-type solution to the Border is a serious proposition at all and I do not believe it demonstrates any kind of political nous or understanding of the job that needs to be done. It is a very significant challenge to ensure that not only the economic life of the island but also the political life and the Good Friday Agreement infrastructure are not completely undermined....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Although the Revenue Commissioners carried out the exercise, I do not believe the exercise was necessary to put what I describe up in lights. The Taoiseach gave the reasons the Cabinet sub-committee is not meeting as regularly as would be optimal. Given this, he needs to ask himself the purpose of the sub-committee and the effectiveness of its work. May I ask the Taoiseach about the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not think that is helpful or appropriate.