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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: 629. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who worked in the frontline as an unpaid trainee in the child psychology and disability services during Covid and who has received no reimbursement to date, will receive payment. [49520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: 630. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who worked in the frontline as an unpaid trainee in the child psychology and disability services during Covid and who has received no reimbursement to date, will receive payment. [49520/22]

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)

Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to the meeting. Apologies have been received from Deputy Munster. If attending in the committee room, which everyone is this morning, or from the precincts of Leinster House, attendees are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others against the risk of contracting Covid-19, which I hear is back again. Members attending remotely must do so...

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)

Brian Stanley: I welcome Mr. Mulvany back to the committee and I wish him well in his new role. He is back in a different position today. We might say he is in the hot seat. It is detailed in the letter of invitation that he has five minutes for his opening statement.

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)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Devlin is next.

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)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy may continue.

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)

Brian Stanley: In relation to Dublin Fire Brigade, I want to ask Mr. Morton about the figure of 16%. The expenditure was €9 million in 2021 or 16%. The overall budget is in excess of €200 million for ambulances.

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)

Brian Stanley: Are the figures of €9 million and 16% in 2021 correct?

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)

Brian Stanley: I know it is a valuable service and it compares very well. I know that this is not the main issue with ambulance services, because the main thing is to save lives and to improve people's medical conditions. Does it compare favourably in terms of the cost per ambulance and the cost per response and everything with service across the State?

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)

Brian Stanley: It is good to hear that. I thank Mr. Morton. We will break and we will resume in ten minutes sharp.

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)

Brian Stanley: The next committee member is Deputy Colm Burke who has ten minutes.

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)

Brian Stanley: May I ask about the pandemic bonus? I know that one of the members referred to it earlier but I would like further clarity. I have had more letters about this again this morning from constituents, from Sharon, Caitríona and so on. Every day come emails, letters and phone calls about people working on the front line, in private nursing homes, in the HSE itself or with agencies. May I...

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)

Brian Stanley: I have tabled parliamentary questions about this. It was mentioned that the HSE hopes to have the payment made by the end of the year. Does that include the private nursing homes and agencies?

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)

Brian Stanley: Okay. It is an issue. The witnesses can understand. I could quote from the letters I have received. Sharon says she has put herself and her family at risk, put her patients' welfare before that of her children, contracted Covid-19 so many times during the course of the pandemic and put her own health in jeopardy. The witnesses can understand-----

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)

Brian Stanley: I appreciate that. I am just asking that every effort be made. I will revert to the ambulances. Last year, I think, at a meeting of the committee, I raised with Paul Reid the issue of dynamic deployment and the fact that a number of ambulances were quickly deployed from, for example, County Laois or County Offaly to Wexford or Waterford. When they are three quarters of the way there...

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)

Brian Stanley: How long has that been in operation?

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)

Brian Stanley: There have not been as many complaints in the past few months, either from staff or members of the public.

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)

Brian Stanley: I acknowledge that. Mr. Morton is an expert on this matter, whereas I am not. This is his everyday job. It seemed to me, however, that it was becoming a real problem, particularly given that the service is running at about 54% capacity. We have little over half the number of ambulances and staff we need. I will turn for a moment to the recruitment targets. There are 2,161 staff at the...

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)

Brian Stanley: We have 577 ambulances. How many do we need?

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)

Brian Stanley: Let us compare Ireland with Scotland, for example. I remember looking at this before and we were a long way behind in comparison. Scotland is a country that is fairly similar to Ireland. There are a lot of similarities. A few large cities and rural-----