Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances

3:30 pm

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Presumably the HSE will issue a direction to each hospital to the effect that from an administrative viewpoint there should be cohesiveness in terms of files. I do not especially wish to know what is happening; I simply wish to see the result. I presume once the forms are completed and submitted to the insurance companies, the HSE will actively engage with the insurance companies to find some mechanism to accelerate a substantial portion or a certain portion of the payments to enable the HSE to have leverage in terms of the front-line cuts it has been required to make. Specifically, I have in mind home help hours.