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Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The exact wording is that it was for "past care".

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will conclude this session on the Grace issue and the Deloitte report. We seek some follow-up correspondence and we did mention some other cases involving the State Claims Agency. We will put what we are seeking in a letter to Mr. O'Brien. It goes without saying that everything that has been said including the transcript, and all documentation arising as a result of our deliberations,...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The main business of the meeting is dealing with the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2016, chapter 19 - management and oversight of grants to health agencies. As we have representatives of HSE before the committee, I want to take one minute to make a public health announcement. I absented myself from the meeting for ten minutes to have the flu jab in Leinster House. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: In the second part of the meeting we will deal with the management and oversight of grants to health agencies, regularly referred to in the public arena as section 38 and section 39 bodies, as they are funded directly by the HSE. Almost €4 billion of taxpayers' money is given to them. At previous meetings the committee raised serious concerns about the level of oversight of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Before I call Mr. O'Brien, perhaps Mr. McCarthy might explain the phrase "service arrangements are put in place with larger service providers, those operating on a for-profit basis and out-of-State service providers".

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Will somebody, please, explain to the public what it means?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Are there many of them?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is the service being provided in the State?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is the service provided in those countries or do people from those countries come here to provide it?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Sometimes children might have to go to specialists.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Does the HSE have a service level agreement with Great Ormond Street Hospital, to take an example relating to children, or would it be just pay as one goes?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are all familiar with the services EU citizens can receive by going to the North. Is that a different scheme again?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay. I asked the question because the phrase caught my eye.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is great that the taxpayer will fund them because they are obviously serious or critical cases. I am sorry for interjecting, but people find that this adds to their knowledge of the matter. I invite Mr. O'Brien to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. O'Brien. Speakers have indicated in the following sequence. Deputy Cullinane, the first speaker, has 20 minutes. Deputy Catherine Connolly, the second speaker, has 15 minutes. Deputy Marc MacSharry is the third speaker and he has ten minutes. Everybody after that has ten minutes. When there are two minutes remaining, I will remind people their time is almost up.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy has two minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: This is the Deputy's last question and he should be quick.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am moving on to Deputy Connolly.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. The Deputy has made his point.