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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: To continue that line of questioning, will that also include Dublin Fire Brigade paramedics?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: There is no doubt that somebody who sat in an ambulance for those first few weeks of the pandemic, with Covid-positive patients, were at the front line and were immediately impacted by the virus. They are paid by a public body, Dublin City Council, and to my mind there should be no question but that there should be an immediate payment. When Mr. Mulvany said "Minister", was he referring...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I now know which of my colleagues to collar so I appreciate that. On the broader issue of section 38 and section 39 organisations, the Comptroller and Auditor General carried out a review of governance in 2016 and the financial implications around their structure. Does the HSE believe it has the correct value for money from section 38s and section 39s?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: My concern is that more than €5 billion is going into the sector, admittedly across a whole range of spectrums. For intellectual disabilities in particular, and in the Cork area specifically, it essentially came to a situation where those people in receipt of HSE funding were not able to accommodate children with special needs. The education and training board, ETB, stepped in and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: There is an increasing demand for the public provision of services. That is very clear when there is a private operator but sometimes, when there is a voluntary operator, that same call is not made. It is a policy issue maybe rather than a matter for Mr. Mulvany. I sometimes feel we do not subject section 39s to the same level of scrutiny regarding value for money. I ask for a note from...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Those are very fair comments.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: I accept interagency is easier said and done. I understand that. I will turn to the matter of the National Ambulance Service. Can the HSE confirm how many posts are vacant at present?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Some of the anecdotal evidence I am hearing from people is that the potential for staff to be allocated anywhere in the country is one of the major challenges. Parts of the country have persistent vacancies, while in other places demand might be oversubscribed. Has the NAS considered direct recruitment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: The NAS was probably based on a model similar to An Garda Síochána, where members are centrally trained and then distributed around the country, but we are in a very different employment market. On the role of the NAS, there are other private operators it is competing with as a potential employer. That degree of flexibility is very important. I am jumping around here; I often...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: What is the total expenditure in respect of non-compliant procurement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: There is 44% below that figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022) Paul McAuliffe: Some 44% of the HSE procurement was not within the scope of the assessment, in that it would have been below that €20,000 threshold.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I think Deputy Murphy is right on the NTA. As it has grown it is having a greater impact. Its representatives were in before with regard to the capital projects that were taking place. These are incredibly significant. This week both the BusConnects and metro projects for my area are being published in tandem. It would be useful to have the NTA in again. The area I would like us to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I think the Secretary General is being helpful in trying to ensure he has one appearance at the committee but the Committee of Public Accounts has determined that he may have more than one and we should go with our own view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I wish to continue on that. The reason members might focus on that is because many of the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality were about tackling issues where gender made a significant difference. There is no doubt that women suffer domestic violence far more than man. That is not to say that men do not experience violence; of course they do. If we are to address...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Yes. In the broader submission in which the domestic violence references were made, there was a broader view - complaint is probably too hard a word – by IBEC that there should be a delay or staggering. There was a public conference held earlier in the year in which the same comments were uttered; in other words, IBEC was suggesting that we should stagger or delay this flexible...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I think Ms O’Hare is focusing on the wrong element of it. My suggestion was that IBEC is suggesting that the Government was introducing too much paid leave, citing the extension of parental leave, the introduction of statutory sick pay and the domestic violence legislation. It is a broader tone here; it is not just on the issue of domestic violence. It is a broader tone that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I accept there are challenges. The question is to which aspect IBEC is opposed. Is it opposed to statutory paid sick leave?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)
Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. I do not have time for a final question but I make the point that, equally, one cannot ignore how businesses have benefited from or taken advantage of the gender pay gap over many years. Both items have to be put on the balance sheet.