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Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I want to briefly reiterate the essence of the Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015. The Bill proposes that where a person is liable to pay an annual management fee to a management company in respect of a property, he or she should have a partial exemption in respect of his or her local property tax in the relevant year on confirmation that the management fee has been paid....

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to commence the Second Stage debate on the Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015. Essentially, the Bill is an amendment to the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 to make provision for a partial - I stress the word "partial" - exemption of property tax payable by a relevant owner whose property is located in a...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister of State for putting this up-to-date report on the record of the House. It corresponds substantially with the information I received in response to a parliamentary question I tabled on 13 October. I have been following this issue carefully and I raise it again today to try to ensure that the primary school project progresses to the next stage and is included in the next...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I want to speak about the urgent need for new school building projects in Monasterevin, County Kildare. Everybody in the town knows that the primary schools and the secondary school in the town need new buildings because of the old, cramped conditions that prevail in both school locations at present. I have visited all the schools in Monasterevin on a few occasions. My first visit was in...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and his colleagues before the committee. We have met representatives of the HSE for a good few years but there is something very different today. What the Comptroller and Auditor General has stated was confirmed in the HSE statement. The HSE's purpose is to deliver the health service to the country but the witnesses have told us it is an organisation not compliant...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Mulvany to send us a detailed note on this issue. People will be shocked to hear the HSE was not paying PRSI for its employees on time. I would have considered this to be a no-go area for any employer. I am simply picking up on what Mr. Mulvany said. He can understand the concerns he has raised in saying this.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Mulvany to provide a detailed note for the committee because we are only having a cursory discussion in public this morning.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: This is a matter on which members seek a detailed note. I accept that other public bodies have been caught for taxation in respect of benefit-in-kind, including the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Yes. I accept that there is a system in place for public bodies to get their house in order.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: No; I understand the name of the HSE will not be published, o those of other bodies might not be. I will move on to a procurement issue. The witnesses heard my comment that the HSE's annual report noted how €56.5 million in contracts had been awarded by the executive without a competitive tendering process. Moreover, this figure has escalated to being much worse than in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: As Mr. Swords knows; it was a case of "resign or".

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Of course, the person did.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I recognise that it is private.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Swords is telling me that someone can beat him up and until he has a judge stating he or she is guilty, he will do nothing about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: What is the HSE doing about it?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Swords met representatives of Eurosurgical Limited. Has he met the whistleblowers?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Surely, the person who was involved in this regard is a key person. The television programme could not have been made without somebody speaking to journalists. Is Mr. Swords stating this person has spoken to RTE and everyone else and that Mr. Swords has approached Eurosurgical Limited? Subject to data controls and whatever limitations the HSE may put on the matter, I wish to know the...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Will a cheque go to the company this month, despite what the HSE knows?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Why should it? It is the taxpayer who is paying for it.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The manufacturer is winning, as it is selling its product. We are paying for it and paying inflated prices and kickbacks. What I wish to ask is-----