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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask Deputy Ó Caoláin to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that part of the internal investigation into the cost of expensive equipment being serviced in the Beacon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: How often would the HSE get phone calls from whistleblowers or people concerned about procurement or other practices within the HSE about supply of goods and services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Are they all followed up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Did the HSE give any information, advice or guidelines to the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group about its internal investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is Mr. Woods satisfied it has all the information it needs from the "Prime Time" programme and the issues raised with the HSE? In the letter to us it says otherwise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: If Deputy Troy has information he might liaise with the HSE on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I asked Mr. Cullen earlier about the procurement, contracting and awarding of services, procurement of goods and so on. Does Mr. Swords believe there is a culture of enticement or inducement operating within the public sector in terms of suppliers or manufacturers selling goods or services? Are they offering inducements or trying to act in an untoward manner?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: For argument's sake, within Mr. Lynch's hospital group, for example, if I am supplying a product or goods and I go in to a member of staff with a gift or whatever, what is the policy of the hospital group on staff accepting gifts or tokens of appreciation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Ó Caoláin's point about communications is well made. It is extraordinary that the hospital would not have known.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: On the allegations from the "Prime Time" programme - I accept that there is an investigation - the HSE has a procurement framework in place with Eurosurgical. To how many hospitals does it apply? Can Mr. Woods clarify the status of tendering for surgical consumables, given the issues raised in the programme? According to the HSE statement following the programme, there are no issues with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is Mr. Woods referring to the €6 million expenditure - €4 million for the HSE and €2 million for the HSE-funded voluntary sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: May I ask one general question in the context of the procurement policy? Given that the HSE has saved €28 million in 2015, which by Mr. Woods's own analysis is short of the €95 million the executive might try to save in the 2015 service plan, and given that the HSE has spent €1.6 billion, or 13% of its budget, is the target too ambitious? Am I missing something in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for their engagement. A number of issues have been raised and the witnesses might liaise with the clerk about providing responses. I thank the members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (17 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The joint committee has agreed to request a meeting with the Health Service Executive, HSE, St. Vincent's University Hospital Group and the Beacon Hospital on procurement practices for the purchase of hospital medical supplies and equipment and issues arising from last night’s “Prime Time” programme. We will facilitate members as soon as we can with information on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla - Child and Family Agency (17 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, delegates and those present in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting of proceedings. I welcome from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, Mr. Gordon Jeyes, chief executive; Ms Colette Walsh, director of human resources; Ms Eibhlin Byrne, director of educational welfare...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla - Child and Family Agency (17 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Jeyes for his presentation. I will now take questions from members, beginning with Deputy Robert Troy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla - Child and Family Agency (17 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There must be a new coalition coming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla - Child and Family Agency (17 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The next speaker is Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, to be followed by Deputy Ó Caoláin, who I know has to attend another meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla - Child and Family Agency (17 Jul 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: How confident is Mr. Jeyes that he will be able to achieve his end aim, given what he has just said?