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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: They said it would cost a little under €15 million. It is either not being used or there is minimal use. It is incredible.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: I support Deputy McDonald. Basically, in the discussions relating to South Tipperary General Hospital, many of us have argued that the facility has been left as it has. Not alone has it been left in that manner, but the HSE is refusing to use it as a step-down facility for people who are going to emergency theatre and into South Tipperary General Hospital to have procedures. If it is not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: Anything that is not a clear audit.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: We all have those people.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: The Comptroller and Auditor General made reference to this and I agree with the sentiment expressed by Deputy Cullinane regarding that area. Did the Comptroller and Auditor General say he should have another report that we could look at in June?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: My only issue is that, as the Chairman said, we could nearly have a public accounts committee for the HSE. I had already written down the three issues referred to by the Comptroller and Auditor General. I would like to see the issue of capital spending in the HSE dialled up in here as soon as possible across a range of different areas. Everyone has been talking about the issue of drugs for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: Actually, I think it predates me so it is okay. It involved a more controversial Minister before me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: For the information of members, the Joint Committee on Health is sitting at the same time as this committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have not managed bilocation yet. I am sure that all the members will miss me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: I welcome all our guests to this session. In the next session, representatives of the HSE will be before us, so if the witnesses want to prompt anything to me and my colleagues, I am sure we will be able to facilitate that for the second session. I apologise for being late; I also had to attend a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts. A number of us have two committees on at the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: It would be highly more likely, though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: Does the lack of full provision of 20-week to 22-week scans mean many cases are missed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: I also have a few questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: Perhaps in the next round of answers, the two Marys, for want of a better phrase, might be given the chance to answer the questions Deputy Kelleher and I asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: Ms Leahy made the point very clearly that where there was good management or leadership, it was much more likely that trainees would stay within the system. I was wondering if there were other reasons for this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for attending to discuss this critical topic. We heard some very good presentations earlier from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, and the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. I would go as far as to say they were some of the best I have heard during my time in public office. I hope that our current witnesses were listening in or that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is for the Department of Health to decide.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: Therefore, Mr. Woods was in favour of it being included, but it did not make it in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: Did Mr. Woods ask for it to be included?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Alan Kelly: We are here to get answers. Either Mr. Woods did or he did not.