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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: What about outpatient procedures?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: Is that €12.5 million an annual figure?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: Some €4 million per annum. If an inpatient procedure costs €4,000 or so and staying in the bed overnight costs an extra €800, every inpatient case that is moved to a day case surgery results in a saving of at least €4,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: I accept that, but I am trying to get some sense of the money.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: We all know that everything that is involved is complex, but if the average saving per case of moving a procedure from inpatient to day case surgery was €4,000, there would be a saving of €4 million for every thousand such switches. Mr. Hardy is nodding in disagreement.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: I thank the witnesses for attending. I am looking at the documentation we have, including the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, and I thank the witnesses for the briefing note they furnished also. We also have our own summary. I am trying to understand the big picture before we get into the little picture. We have been told that there were 247,000 surgical procedures in 2012, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: Of all the audits not certified by 31 October, the Comptroller and Auditor General said two thirds of them were with senior management. He indicated that in the first six months of the year he contracts some consultancy staff to help with the field work and contracts out some of the work to other companies. The bottleneck appears to be at senior manager review level. This begs the question...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: It must be remembered that the Department concerned is the Department of Finance. The clerk will understand what I am saying.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy should tell them he is under pressure from the Committee of Public Accounts.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: Will NTMA be exempt from all of this?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a legislative basis for the future appointment of members to the boards of State bodies, including commercial and non-commercial semi-State organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42278/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: On 30 September the Minister issued a press release announcing a revised model for ministerial appointments to State boards. If he is sincere about this, will he provide a legislative basis for the appointments of members to State boards, including commercial and non-commercial semi-State organisations, and not do this merely by way of a press release?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister. I note that he commenced his reply by talking about guidelines, but at its conclusion, he stated he had an open mind on whether it required legislation. He will have this opportunity shortly, as I intend to publish legislation to put his press release and the matters about which he spoke on a guideline basis on a statutory footing. Consequently, I hope he will support...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: On the new lottery regulator whom the Minister appointed on the eve of the by-election which was a day on which much publicity would not have been generated, I understand up to that date and pending this appointment, the Minister was the regulator.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: As regulator, the Minister handed over to the new man and issued a press release. I totally accept that the Minister was not involved in the selection process, but he did have a role in announcing the appointment.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is right. Members debated that legislation when the Minister was privatising the lottery licence.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: There is another point which I will ask the Minister to consider in his guidelines. When the Minister issued his statement, he was specific that where there are legislative proposals for separate methods of appointment for different bodies they will not be covered by this. I ask him to take out all of those separate proposals because there is no point in coming in here, a year after they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the phased repeal of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42277/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: Are the five separate pieces of financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation that are on the Statute Book from 2009 to 2013, which were necessary when introduced, currently justified, and has the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform plans for a phased repeal of this legislation?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (6 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Minister has summarised the current position without giving any reason as to why he is holding the current position. He said he issued his report on 29 June 2014 in respect of the annual review of the need for the FEMPI legislation and he concluded that it is still necessary, but he gave no explanation as to why he believes it is still necessary. The level of the national debt is now...