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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: It would have to in some way. If it was €74 million back in September 2012 and of the €61 million, €9 million is outstanding for more than a year, some of that €9 million must have been included in the €74 million as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is still the same. It is coming out of the same pool.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: If they are outstanding for more than 12 months, they are included in the €74 million at the end of September.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: That could be less than six months outstanding.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: We were led to believe last October that there was €74 million in forms in respect of the consultants' element of the private fee income that had not been billed to whatever private insurer because the forms had not been signed off by the consultant. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Of the €61 million, what are the debtors' days? How long is that outstanding? That is a different issue. I am talking about an administrative issue. I am going through the eye of a needle here for something that should be relatively straightforward to answer. I will not let it go because at the end of the day, it is taxpayers' money. Of the €61 million, could Mr. Woods...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: If €61 million worth of bills have not gone to a private insurer and if the HSE is an organisation with a budget of €13 billion to €14 billion per year but Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Woods are not able to tell me how long that €61 million has been outstanding for, I must ask why they cannot give me that figure because this is relatively straightforward accounting.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it one half or one third of the figure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would have expected Mr. Woods to have that figure here today because we have done so much work on this. We brought out a report on the HSE with specific mention of the €74 million. I have written to the HSE and we produced a report on the matter. We still do not know why €61 million remains outstanding, how long it is outstanding and how many consultants are involved. Is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Mr. Tony O’Brien and his colleagues. On the issue of the treatment of private patients in public hospitals, in September 2012 up to €74 million was outstanding for consultants’ fee billings to private insurers. Of this figure, at the time we were told that between €5 million to €8 million was outstanding for more than 12 months. The overall...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect to Mr. Tony O’Brien, we did a report on this and the Health Service Executive, HSE, would have known this issue was coming up in today’s meetings. We are going off on tangents and other issues. This is about money and a matter that has gone on for a long period. It involves approximately €60 million. I am looking for relatively straightforward figures...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: What are the periods involved?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Tony O'Brien can express the view that he expressed to the Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Before we proceed, on the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, is the site currently in NAMA? We should consider calling representatives of NAMA as witnesses as they would have considerable knowledge. They have all of the documentation and would know. There is a major legal aspect to how the site was acquired. Representatives of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority will appear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Normally one strips out repatriated profits from FDI so that GNP is lower than GDP. That is the case for the forecast for this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I want to cut to the chase in the time remaining. Given that investment may increase or decrease this year, what is required? The majority of the people in Ireland are employed in the domestic economy. If we are to deal with the issue of unemployment, the key driver will come from the domestic economy. FDI is extremely important in providing employment but how do we get to the point where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Professor McHale and his colleagues and commend them on their comprehensive report. To return to the issue of the domestic economy and employment, I note an interesting figure on the outturn for 2012 showing that growth in GNP was significantly higher than growth in GDP. This is not usually the case in Ireland. Real GNP growth in 2012 was 3.4%, whereas real GDP growth was 0.9%....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Why was real GNP growth 3.4% in 2012 while GDP growth was only 0.9%? This gives a differential of 2.5%.