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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: In any event, we are returning the dossier to the legal firm that sent it to us. We wish the commission every speed with its investigation. I believe it has indicated that it hopes to conclude by December. In the meantime, NAMA will be before us in September in the normal course of events. I have noted that Deputy MacSharry wants to raise another matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General wants to comment on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The next item on the agenda is statements of accounts received since our previous meeting. Only one account has been received in the past week, which is that of IDA Ireland and to which a clear audit opinion attaches. We will note it and move on. The next item is our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will send a letter to IDA Ireland seeking an update on where the issue relating to ConnectIreland stands. Today we are dealing with the Tax Appeals Commission and the Revenue Commissioners. The appropriation accounts for the Vote of the Department of Health, the HSE's financial statements for 2017, which were recently issued, and matters relating to consultants' pay, are on the agenda...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will withdraw that part but I would like the recruitment process to be broad.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Essentially, all I am asking is that recruitment process be as broad as possible. We have had four excellent men but the process should not be narrowed to one gender as happened in the past. It is a personal view and I am not speaking on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts when I say that. I think we will have to allocate one hour to wrap up the CervicalCheck issue with the HSE as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The HSE is here next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the first hour and we will be strict about that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The first hour of the meeting will be on CervicalCheck and I want whoever comes before us to deal with the following specific issues. Deputy MacSharry raised the first one and I do not know the answer. When Quest Diagnostics, MedLab Pathology and the Coombe laboratory compiled their reports, they went back to the HSE for sign-off. We want to know who signed off on them when they came back...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Since the cervical cancer issue blew up, the national director of the cervical screening programme, Dr. Gráinne Flannelly, has stepped aside. I have looked at her press release on a few occasions and the phrase used is "step aside". I want to know if Dr. Flannelly is still in the employment of the HSE. If so, she should be here. She cannot say that she is taking her salary and is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: The programme manager during that period was Charles O'Hanlon. I am told he is just not available at the moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are in agreement. If she employed, part-time or-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Contracted in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: My understanding is similar.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: We want that clarified. The public is looking to the Oireachtas, although I know we have Professor Scally's inquiry and we are going to have a commission of investigation. When the cervical cancer issue blew up, the director general of the HSE resigned, Dr. Gráinne Flannelly stepped aside and Charles O'Hanlon, who was the programme manager, has been unavailable. The three senior...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Allied to that is the situation whereby they can pay for somebody to stay in a nursing home full-time under the fair deal scheme. Sometimes a good home-care package might be adequate but they say they have not the funds to do that although they will pay for the more expensive option of the nursing home. The lesser option might be to provide a greater service at home.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, and their families. The last thing on the work programme is that I want to arrange to send a letter to the Department of Education and Skills. Our work went down very successfully with the HSE and it has thanked us publicly on several occasions for the section 38 and section 39 arrangements in respect of which many of their accounts were years out of date. There was a lack of proper...