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- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: The HSE, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: No, you are not sure.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: No, no. Go back. Do not wander off on me again. What is happening in regard to the care of Grace is that the organisation or agency had to care for Grace out of its own funds. You presented a column of funding in order to point out to us that it was not penalised in any way for raising issues around the care of intellectually disabled people. I understand that Mr. O'Brien is going to...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: In regard to Ann, in one of your comments earlier you spoke about the rights of the foster mother and so on. You outlined those. In all of your discussions here, as I said to you earlier on, there was a failure to outline the rights of the intellectually disabled person. The emphasis on one set of rights as against another is not balanced. That is my view of what you have been saying.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: I accept that and I encourage you with speed along-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: Well, it will be. Whoever is in the House after the election will have to pursue it. I respect the position Mr. O'Brien is taking and, as I said, I encourage him to continue with speed down that road. That brings me to the point made by Deputy McFadden. I was asked a question about our remit on the radio and Deputy Deasy quoted me. It started with the whole question of costs. It is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: In terms of current issues, and I will finish on this, Tusla is now the child care agency and I would have to say that if I had doubt about any employee I would have who was taking up employment elsewhere, I would be inclined to mark their cards. That is all I will say. It is a reasonable undertaking to assume that the HSE would undertake that in terms of any doubts it had because not to...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Report on Foster Home in Waterford Community Care Area: Discussion (2 Feb 2016)
John McGuinness: I again thank the witnesses for attending. This part of the meeting is concluded. In conclusion of the Committee of Public Accounts for this Dáil term, I thank all those witnesses that appeared before us. I also thank the secretariat, back-up services and all members of the committee, including those currently serving and those who have been members during the course of the past...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 21 January agreed to? Agreed. The next item is correspondence received since the meeting on 21 January. No. 3A is correspondence received from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence, dated 18 January 2016, received from Mr. Derek Moran, Secretary General, Department of Finance, as a follow-up to the meeting of the committee on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: Can we stick to this issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: We will contact the HSE and its chairman. Depending on the circumstances in the Dáil, we will try to meet next Tuesday at 11.30 a.m. or 12 o'clock to determine if we can have the HSE before us to go through this issue. In the meantime, the HSE should reflect on the fact that this has gone on since 1983 and that it was given information in 1993. We have to continue to remember it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: Those within the HSE who were to give the apology did not even know they were to give the apology.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: I asked the Deputy to repeat that about the workers because of the fact that, as well as protecting those who were abused and the whistleblower, the workers need to be included because it would seem that they are being used in this game of circling the wagons.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: The culture that was mentioned earlier by a number of members is one that needs to be broken. I accept what Deputy O'Donovan says - it does not make any difference what Minister is there if the culture is there - but this needs to be brought to the attention of the Minister for Health so that he understands how far the HSE is willing to go to protect the very culture that has given rise to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: Can we take that issue under any other business?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: I will just go through the correspondence and come back to the Deputy then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: If the Dáil is sitting next Tuesday-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: That is a decision for the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jan 2016)
John McGuinness: The auditor of Meath County Council is the audit committee, which stems from the elected representatives of Meath County Council. It is probably an issue in terms of this committee, given the road construction programme and whatever funding might have gone in that direction. In the context of good governance from the Department, it is an issue that can be raised-----