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- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: No. We are-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes, sorry.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The acting Garda Commissioner can come back to the committee on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask that a note be sent back to the committee on that issue. At this stage, I thank the acting Garda Commissioner and Mr. Nugent for their presence today. Before we suspend, I seek agreement from members that we will go straight on to HIQA now and will defer dealing with our correspondence and other routine matters until the afternoon. Representatives from HIQA have been waiting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: For the benefit of people following the proceedings of the committee we will hold over, for the moment and maybe until the afternoon, dealing with the minutes from the previous meetings, correspondence, reports and the work programme. We will move directly to the HIQA financial statement 2016 at this stage. We thank the witnesses for waiting. We had unscheduled business to deal with first...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. I call Mr. Quinn to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Quinn. Before we take questions from members of the committee, members have asked that I be strict on the time for each speaker, to give everybody an opportunity to get in within a reasonable time. The first speaker will have 20 minutes and the second will have 15. That includes questions and answers. Everybody else will have a ten-minute slot and people will be able to come...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Could Ms Dunnion explain that for the public?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does HIQA have more powers in respect of nursing homes -----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: ----- than in hospitals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I do not think that the public understands that subtle difference.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Alan Kelly has ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I agree with the Deputy. I looked at the witnesses' opening statement and in terms of anybody reading it, it states that it is here to improve the health services for the public but now we find it has no role in regulating any of the hospitals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The opening statement did not give any perception as to its limited role. I am only pointing it out, and I know it is the witnesses' first time to be here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Kelly's time is up. The next speaker is Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Sorry, Deputy
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: What is the Tusla investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: He was before us with NAMA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I just want to pose a few random questions. Approximately how many closures of nursing homes would HIQA have brought about in recent years? There would be a few.