Results 10,701-10,720 of 35,132 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. That is what has happened for 14 consecutive years. It is not going to continue. Somebody has to call a halt. I am saying to the Department of Education and Skills that the Office of the Chief State Solicitor or whichever State body has responsibility is not getting the business done from a legal perspective. I do not want to have to bring Mr. Ó Foghlú back before the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There are two aspects to this. The legal fees were €94,340 and the cost of the investigating team was €305,320.34, giving a total cost of €399,660.34. There were no significant indirect costs because the members of the review group were all external to the service. We will note and publish that information. On the charging of residents for incontinence wear, we will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I met the family concerned during the summer and I accept that we cannot leave matters as they stand. Perhaps we could publish the note with caveats attached and members could meet them outside the setting of the Committee of Public Accounts. It might be the case that they do not want the matter brought to a public meeting of the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is the first response we have had.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We want to go into this matter and I am with the Deputy on it. However, the families might have a concern and they are clearly identifiable within the institution because the organisation knows about the issue. I want to be sensitive to the people who are living in the nursing home and their families and I do not want to escalate something in such a way as to make them uncomfortable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I would like to check back with them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: No. I met a delegation here in Dublin.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will start with the person in question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can possibly have a chat about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: As Chairman, I would not like to call the organisation in without touching base with the families concerned.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will be happy to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: To which report is the Deputy referring?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We all know that the recommendation of the Ombudsman is not legally binding. We can take up that report if the Ombudsman has already done a body of work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is Deputy Catherine Murphy referring to Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise or to other hospitals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: It might not be quite the same topic, but we have written to the State Claims Agency to identify the number of hospitals on its books in the context of material cases and the cost of the reviews.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Representatives from the State Claims Agency will be before the committee at its next meeting to discuss medical negligence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes. The State Claims Agency has a system for monitoring and recording all of those. It is the national incident management system, NIMS. This is an issue to which we will return when the representatives from the State Claims Agency appear before us in a fortnight to discuss medical negligence. In the meantime, I have given an undertaking to follow up on this matter. I will communicate...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will meet the family because I met them during the summer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: There is a specific issue, which we are dealing with, and there is also a broader issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will keep both alive. No. 1667 B is correspondence from Ms Katherine Licken, Secretary General of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, in response to a request made by the committee for information regarding Galway's designation as European Capital of Culture for 2020, including the new structures and plans for the money that has been allocated and the service level...