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- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: That is what I mean. They were not compliant and they had to close.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Fine. We understand that. Perhaps they had business or other reasons.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Alyward mentioned a particular case whereby the ownership seems to have changed and I remember on instance a couple of years ago one - in Mullingar or somewhere in Westmeath - where people were being moved elsewhere because of standards. How often does that happen? It is obviously rare.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: When something like that happens, it attracts a great deal of media attention.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does everybody who works in all the organisations that HIQA regulates require Garda clearance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I know well it is not. In its inspections, would HIQA check registers or the files?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Connolly mentioned that approximately 80% of nursing homes are now in the private sector and that 20% are in the public sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does HIQA notice any difference between the 80% and the 20%? In the context of the 20%, what is HIQA happy or unhappy about, or vice versa, particularly if there is a different culture operating within the organisations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness does not have a particular concern in respect of the private or public sector specific to the ownership-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: HIQA has been existence for ten years and this is its first time before the Committee of Public Accounts so I ask the witnesses to bear in mind that members of the committee do not have the same knowledge of the organisation as would members of the Joint Committee on Health, for example. As chief inspector, the witness is answerable to the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Accounting Officer is answerable to us in his own right but Ms Dunnion has a separate reporting role, which I presume is to the Committee on Health or perhaps just the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: As chief inspector, has she been called in to the Oireachtas to report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: To the Joint Committee on Health.