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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: I thank the witnesses for attending. HIQA has an incredibly important role in our society. It protects all of our loved ones, or at least it is supposed to. I hope HIQA leaves today with a renewed vigour to ensure safety and the highest standards across our nursing home sector and all health service providers. As an entity, HIQA has huge potential but we have to have a serious...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Do they believe that is an acceptable level of risk or is that relationship too close?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Was there a conflict of interest declared, given that that person may have had close relationships with people still at HIQA from the time when he was chair?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: I know, but Ms Fitzgerald can imagine how, when the public hears that the former chair of HIQA is the managing director of a company that now makes hundreds of thousands of euros a year providing ICT services to HIQA, people need reassurance that there is no close relationship and every accountability is in place.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Are the witnesses proud of HIQA's procurement track record?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: There is a reason I asked that. Witnesses can correct me if I am wrong. I am looking at the description of the purchase orders and the number of purchase orders from top to bottom across the entity. There were eight purchases orders, with the description "mobile phone charges", of over €512,000. I want to check that is correct and over what time period that would have been.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: That is for that set of financial accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: In the constituency I represent, there are many smaller nursing homes. They might be family-owned businesses and they take great pride in the work they do. There is a big concern that if a smaller provider were to put one foot out of step, HIQA would be down on top of it making sure everything is compliant. There would be recommendations for that provider and an inspection and a report....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Do inspectors choose what inspections they take?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: If I am an inspector, therefore, is it easier for me to go and inspect the small nursing home where there are one or two complaints than to go to the nursing home where there are 200 complaints? Do the caseloads where there are 200 complaints get left until last because it is known it is going to be the hardest work?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Is it HIQA or the chief inspectorate that decides when there will be a prosecution or that legal action will be pursued?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: In the office of the chief inspector, if it is decided that an entity will be pursued, is the Chief State Solicitor used or are external legal firms used?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: In the last few years, who would have been the office's go-to legal adviser that would have done the most work for it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: What is the chief legal firm HIQA goes to?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: I would just like to get the name of the firms.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: What is the largest provider at the moment?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: Would I be correct in saying - Ms Fitzgerald can tell me if I am wrong - that Mason, Hayes and Curran is also advising Emeis?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Albert Dolan: -----and we have not seen any prosecutions over Emeis yet.