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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Let me talk then about the issue of the recruitment embargo because there has been a lot of discussion about that and reference to there being no recruitment, people not being appointed and so on. I am not even using the term "recruitment embargo" but my understanding is that there were funded posts and unfunded posts.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I understood that all of the funded, approved posts were filled, can be filled and are allowed to be filled. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: So we have more staff-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: -----and we have recruited more than even was expected last year.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Let me turn then to the idea of unfunded posts. Can Mr. Gloster talk to me about what they are and what that term means? I have heard the Minister use the phrase that it would be like a principal hiring teachers for a ratio for which he does not have approval. Will Mr. Gloster explain that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: And they are the ones that are specifically being targeted as part of the overall?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: By the same token, Deputy Murphy and I and others will criticise the HSE for not recruiting more in certain categories. How much of the unfunded post was in some ways about forward-planning the recruitment problem?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: That brings me to my last question on this point. Is it not time we moved to multi-annual funding for health? I am Vice Chair of the housing committee. I have seen how when we have done multi-annual funding for housing for capital it has transformed the way we are able to deliver housing. It has given confidence to the sector. We now have 100,000 houses being constructed, which is a huge...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I take it as a positive response, but that is a matter for us as well. There is one issue with the embargo in that the co-ordinator for the drugs task force in our area, a gentlemen named John Bennett, a fantastic man, passed away, and there have been suggestions that that post cannot be filled because of the recruitment embargo, even though it has been filled for 20 years. I ask the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: An AHB in health.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes, and we do appreciate Mr. Gloster's intervention on that. Chair, could I get a quick update on the primary care centre?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Sorry, Chair. Could I just get the reply on the primary care centre?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Brilliant.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a review will be carried out of the BusConnects plans for the new No. 19 route which will result in an hourly service for the Wadelai estate area of Dublin 11 rather than the current 20-minute frequency relied on by residents. [4627/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses (25 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to go back to the issue of the LPT, but before I do so, I thank the Revenue Commissioners for the work they do because, ultimately, all the other bodies that come before us and account for the public money they spend in a great part is done because of the work of the Revenue Commissioners. The delivery of service in the areas of the health service, education, etc., because of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses (25 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I imagine at this point that Mr. Cody has probably settled on a number that the Revenue Commissioners have deemed liable for the tax but are not complying with it. He said 3%, but does he have a rough figure of what that might be?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses (25 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It is therefore the case that 60,000 homes across the country are not paying the LPT, are not engaging with the Revenue Commissioners in any way, have not applied for a deferral and there is no interaction between them and there is no interaction between them. What is the length of time for how the Revenue Commissioners would pursue that? Do they have a policy of allowing it to accrue and...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses (25 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It is unlikely that debts would ever exceed the sale value of the property for example. Certainly, it would take a considerable time to do so.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses (25 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: No, but there will be properties that will not be sold, so LPT may never be recouped. Is there any long-term strategy for those? After five, ten or 15 years, we are starting to get into those-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses (25 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Obviously, if they were to be sold at some point, the owner would come forward. I imagine the Revenue Commissioners have quite good relationships with the legal profession in ensuring those sales are-----