Results 81-100 of 355 for speaker:Cathy Bennett
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I will ask the question again. Was it the Minister who signed that contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: To reiterate, there was gross incompetence in respect of that and what has happened in the years following that. Does Mr. Gunning agree that there has been incompetence in this having gone this far? The people are very angry.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Who is the board directing that anger at? It is at BAM? Does the board not blame itself in any way?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: That is okay. It is the State's approach. I want to keep that in mind as I go on to my next point. In 2017, the then Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, gave a commitment that no child would wait for the treatment of scoliosis for longer than four months by the end of the year. How many children are currently waiting for longer than four months? At what point will that commitment be met?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: That commitment was never reached. It was not reached in four months and still has not been reached at this time. Those non-medical grade springs were placed in the bodies of children with scoliosis who were under CHI's care. One line that stood out to me in the HIQA report was that children were not protected from the risk of harm. Does Ms Nugent accept this has been the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Does Ms Nugent accept that Children's Health Ireland has failed abysmally to keep children safe under its care?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: In a separate and distinct review, the Nayagam report was also commissioned regarding clinical outcomes for patients who had spinal surgeries. That is because there were high rates of return to surgery and infections. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I believe that report was completed in September 2023. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: It is still not complete. Is there an interim report that was supposed to be produced?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: CHI still has not got that and that has been going on since September.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is the consultant who was in that report still practising?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is he suspended?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: He is on leave; not suspended then.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Another issue I have relates to the 2,200 families that recently received letters from CHI about the unnecessary hip dysplasia surgery. Parents are coming to me, saying that they have received these letters. Why were these letters sent out?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is Ms Nugent saying that any parent can come back to CHI for a review?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: CHI's former CEO had legal bills. Did they go through the civil and public mediation service?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: It cannot be confidential. Ms Nugent is working for a State body.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Will I bring that to the Minister, maybe?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I thank Ms Nugent for answering my questions.