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- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: I welcome the witnesses. Before we begin, I ask members, witnesses and those in the Gallery to please turn off their mobile phones because they interfere with the sound quality of the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give this committee. If they are directed by the committee to cease...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: I welcome also Ms Frances Spillane and Ms Gráinne Duffy from the Department of Health. I ask Mr. O'Brien to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: May we publish your statement, Mr. O'Brien?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Of course it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Time.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Thank you, Deputy Deasy. For the information of members, Deputy Costello has indicated, as have Deputies McDonald, Dowds and McFadden. That is the order in which members will contribute. Before I call Deputy Costello, I want to bring the meeting back to the reason we are here. It arises from poor information or misinformation, the work of the whistleblowers and their bravery in coming...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Would Mr. Healy tell Deputy Costello just how many people we are talking about, including independent referrals, referrals from the Brothers of Charity, referrals from the HSE and these other cases he is talking about?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Just give me the numbers.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: There is, therefore, no number beyond 47 about which we have to be concerned; it is 47.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: That is the answer, Deputy Costello.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Who wrote the note?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Does Mr. Healy take responsibility for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: No, Mr. Healy-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: "Yes" or "No".
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Does Mr. Healy take responsibility for the inaccuracies that were presented to us?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: "Yes" is the answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: On that question, can the Department of Health tell me whether it intervened at any stage, in the context of the continuation of services at that foster home, asking that it be reconsidered and that they continue to use the foster home. Is that true or false?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Does Ms Spillane have correspondence from her Department that was sent?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Can we have copies of that correspondence?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: -----because we have correspondence that offers information to the contrary. Can Mr. Healy tell me when he first heard of the foster home?