Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration
12:50 pm
Mr. Pat Healy:
We have been collaborating on both of those. We have already had some discussions. We do not have the details but we will engage on them. Many of the funds raised through fund-raising are for capital, refurbishment or extension works. Using that type of funding for staffing purposes and revenue will have to be looked at more carefully because one is making a long-term revenue commitment based on fund-raising. Often we would come to an agreement with an organisation to target a waiting list initiative or short-term initiative where staff would be used to support front-line initiatives. That is something we would agree with the CRC and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform because commitments to permanent full-time employment have to be dealt with carefully and approved because permanent streams of funding need to be available for those.