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- 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: Such people actually get the medical card?
- 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: Even though they might be wealthy? It is because they would be entitled to free medical care under the NHS in England; is that 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 that card? I have never seen one.
- 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: It looks like one but is not one.
- 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: Very well. One learns something new every day. In respect of the figure, I note we are down €48 million. Who is keeping track? I am worried that we could be losing out.
- 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 will be satisfied if Mr. Dempsey sends a note. There are one or two other small points. This will be an issue for Mr. Barry O'Brien in particular, because I refer to it in my opening comments. The second paragraph on page 46 states:The HSE is currently involved in a legal dispute with a number of drugs importing companies with respect to the implementation of cost savings and other...
- 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 must revert to this point. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was aware the contract was expiring at a particular time. Why did it wait until the expiration of the contract or thereabouts before starting to assemble data to help negotiate the next contract? As the Department knew this, why had it not collected the information it is now collecting six months ago? I mean, why...
- 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: If the Chairman will bear with me for a minute, the drugs bill is one of the largest bills paid by the taxpayer. What kind of data could the Department possibly be assembling that were not held by the Department of Health or the HSE? Is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform coming up with data they never had? Is the Department simply going through the same steps, and has 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: Where was it in more than one place up to now?
- 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: Essentially, Mr. Barry O'Brien is stating that the people who signed this agreement the last time did not have an overall picture of what they were signing. That is the implication. Mr. O'Brien is telling me his Department is getting bits from here and there and how an overall picture is needed. By implication, he is stating that the people who signed the last agreement did not have an...
- 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. O'Brien stated that his Department was obliged to collect the data in order to consolidate it all into one overall picture, which was not-----
- 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: Which was not there previously.
- 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. O'Brien must know. I do not like beating around the bush in this regard. If this information was there previously, the Department would not need to be doing this exercise now. If the Department is now obliged to do this, it must not have been available previously. Mr. O'Brien should give it to members straight. If the information was there previously, why is the Department doing this now?
- 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: Right, and it is helpful if the Department is putting it together. Consequently, the involvement of the Department and the aforementioned office should yield a benefit, ultimately, but it probably is leading to a delay in the commencement and the negotiations while it is engaged in this task that had not been done in this manner previously. I revert to the extract I read out from 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: Explain the relevance of the aforementioned paragraph, if everything was so hunky-dory. What is that paragraph doing there?
- 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: Very well. I seek a brief comment. IPHA is the Irish pharmaceutical representative association. I think we had this discussion here previously. The Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of Ireland is another body. Some products are in patent while others are out of patent. A third group is generic. In respect of which group is the HSE negotiating with the IPHA? Are they 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: Is the commencement of both negotiations stalled?
- 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 about suppliers who are not part of the IPHA? Many of us were lobbied during the year about treatment for particular people, for example, blood treatment and people having to have many of blood transfusions. While we are having this negotiation with the IPHA, how many other pharmaceutical drug suppliers are supplying the HSE on a company-by-company basis that is not covered by 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: Could the HSE send us a list?
- 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: Does the HSE have to negotiate with them on a company-by-company basis because they are not part of the IPHA?