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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is black and white.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: There are no joint inspections.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness understands the reason for my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I have learned something today and I am always big enough to say when I have learned something new. HIQA inspects the areas it regulates such as those for older people and those with disabilities but it also often inspects hospitals. That confuses many members of the public. I do not have to mention the report into the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. The public believes HIQA has a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness calls it monitoring. I have just learned the difference between those two terms. The the public at large thinks HIQA has a role in respect of hospitals because it often issues reports in that regard. There is significant misunderstanding of its role.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: People think HIQA oversees all hospitals and the witness can understand that confusion arises because HIQA issues reports on hospitals. People do not know the difference between a statutory investigation, a monitoring role and regulatory inspection. I want to move on to the witnesses' colleagues from the Department of Health. I do not expect Dr. Kathleen MacLellan to be able to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will not ask her to guess but can the witness give a general answer to my question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does Dr. MacLellan understand the question I am asking?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It can be sent to the committee. I want to know the difference between what is regulated, the monitoring role and what is in the health Vote but neither monitored nor regulated. Home help was mentioned, as were section 39 organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The first question I was going to ask the witnesses today was for them to explain the trolley crisis in accident and emergency departments but I learned during the course of the meeting that HIQA has nothing to do with that. Has a vote been called in the Dáil? It is not on the screen. This session is now completed. I thank the witnesses for taking part in the first visit by...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: For the first few minutes we will clearing routine business, which will not take very long. I mean correspondence that we have received in the past seven days and other small items. Then we will go into private session for a legal briefing on the issue of protected disclosure. The first item on the agenda is the minutes for the meeting on 21 September 2017. Are the minutes agreed?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I think we will hold it over until next week if people want to discuss it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We have to be conscious that the Grace case is the subject matter of a commission of investigation. It is good to note that the chairperson of the commission wrote to the HSE to confirm that she does not have any issue with the provision of this report to the Committee of Public Accounts. We have that cleared the whole way up the line to the commission. We have it there. It is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will keep it as a correspondence item. We will keep it on the correspondence list for next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will decide next week what to do. Next week-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I saw that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will hold over this item of correspondence.