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Reappointments to the Health Information and Quality Authority:
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The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly T.D., has reappointed the following members to the Health Information and Quality Authority with effect from 26th February 2023 to 25th February 2026.
Dr Jim Kiely is a graduate of UCD Medical School. He was awarded his postgraduate specialist qualification in Public Health by the RCPI and holds an MBA from the University of Limerick. Jim spent his professional career in various roles in the public health service most notably in the Department of Health where he spent eleven years as Chief Medical Officer (CMO).He also spent a period of time as Health Policy Adviser with the Irish Aid health programme.
As CMO, Jim led the Department of Health’s delegation to the World Health Assembly on many occasions and was a member of, and chaired, the Standing Committee of the WHO Regional Office in Copenhagen. He also represented the Department at EU and Council of Europe health fora. He is former Vice Chair of the Board of Tallaght University Hospital where he served on and chaired a number of the Boards committees.
Dr Kiely has been on the Board of HIQA since 2017 where he has served on a number of the Board committees and currently chairs the Regulation Committee.
Chief Executive Officer
Caroline Spillane CDir is Chief Executive Officer of IoD Ireland. She commenced the role in July 2022. Caroline has held several senior leadership roles including most recently as Director General of Engineers Ireland, the all-Ireland professional body for engineers, CEO of the Medical Council of Ireland, the independent statutory regulator of over 20,000 medical practitioners and Assistant National Director of the Health Services Executive.
Caroline is an experienced Non-Executive Director serving as a board member of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), ESB Networks and Irish Manufacturing Research. She is also a member of the 30% Club, a campaign which is led by a group of business Chairpersons and CEOs taking action to increase gender diversity on boards and senior management teams.
She is a Chartered Director, holds a master’s degree from the Technological University of Dublin, a bachelor’s degree from University College Cork and is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Business Administration with the South East Technological Universit
Martin Higgins was Chief Executive of safefood, one of the cross-border bodies set up under the Good Friday Agreement, for 14 years until his retirement. Prior to that, he worked in the Department of Health for many years specialising in finance, and later in public health regulation.
He is an experienced board member having served on the boards of the Irish Medicines Board, the health and social care professional’s regulator Coru, and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. He is currently chair of the board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland.
Martin has a keen interest in governance and is former chair of the audit and risk committees of both COMREG and An Bord Pleanála. He is currently a member of the Health Research Board’s audit and risk committee.
A professional accountant with additional qualifications in governance, regulation and health economics, Martin is member of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.