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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: With regard to the University of Limerick and the impairment of more than €8 million, I see there is a note there. I have not got a chance to look at it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte romhaibh. The witnesses are all very welcome. I really appreciate their presence. It is important that we have trust in public bodies. I am a firm believer in public bodies and also in doing the best we can to hold them to account, which is not very good in the ten minutes I have. I have read all of the documentation. I realise the volume of patients that CHI and its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I am just asking a specific question. Ms Nugent knows well which report I mean and it was not referred to. Ms Nugent did not refer to it. I have it here in front of me. We have a summary of it and we have legal opinion. I am not going into any of that. I am asking why Ms Nugent did not refer to that report when she was before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Ms Nugent did not know about it at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: No. When did Ms Nugent find out about it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: That is very significant really. We have all read the report as best we can and the bits of it we have seen are absolutely damning in terms of culture. I do not have the time to read it out but Ms Nugent can take it that I have read every single bit of it. Multiple legacy and deep-rooted issues existed but they were not addressed and so on. Two senior examiners were appointed. Who can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Ms Nugent did not know it. Is there anyone here who can tell me why Ms Nugent did not know about this very important report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Ms Hardiman obviously had a handover period in relation to Ms Nugent. Was she not informed about all these legacy issues and that some of them were ongoing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: There was somebody acting as the CEO-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Why did it not happen with that person?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I want to stand reassured but I do not take reassurance. Do you know what I do? I take the reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff. We read them and then we highlight what has been highlighted to us in order to get reassurance that the procedures and practices are not just in place but working. Clearly they were not working and there is nobody here today to tell me...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: When is that coming?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: What is that report on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Would Ms Nugent admit, given those reports, all of the internal reports and not to mention the NTPF which we will come back to and will have another internal report, that something is seriously amiss, notwithstanding the great work being done? I acknowledge HIQA said there was a burden on management that was not tolerable. Those are my words; I am paraphrasing. In the meantime, this is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I understand that an external review of the effectiveness of the board of management was carried out in 2024.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Was it done by somebody external?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: How much did that cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Does anybody know? No. Ms Nugent might come back with that information. How many recommendations were there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: How many recommendations were there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: These are the things would reassure us, honestly. If the witnesses could tell us about the report, what the recommendations are, the status of the recommendations and their implementation, that would be very helpful. CHI's financial statement states that an external report should be carried out every three years. Has a report on the board's effectiveness been done every three years in the past?