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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: Not at this point. Therefore, all the issues regarding the chief executive officers have been dealt with.

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 important to hear that. Regarding the hospitals, I wish to get the detail on the split of funding, and I acknowledge the witnesses might not have that detail with them. Of the allocation of €14 billion, or whatever the figure is, approximately €4 billion goes to the section 38 and 39 organisations. I have asked about this previously and I have been told there is no...

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 ask Mr. Mulvany to take this slowly.

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: Will Mr. Mulvany provide a breakdown of the funding that is spent through the community health care organisations, the CHO regions?

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: Mr. Mulvany might then give us a national total.

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 sure it varies from one CHO region to another-----

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: -----depending on historical issues.

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: Exactly. Mr. Mulvany will give us those figures. I do not want to go into this in detail because it is not the topic we are discussing, but I note the replies we have all got to parliamentary questions relating to people seeking home help service, some of which is provided by organisations funded through section 39 agreements. I could paper my walls with the replies which we have all got....

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: Or by a mixture of both.

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 have come at this from the section 39 organisations, but this could be approached on the basis of what number of home help hours have been approved but not delivered because the people concerned are on a waiting list for funding, and perhaps some estimate of the breakdown could be given between the section-----

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 know that.

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, but Mr. Mulvany must understand it is depressing for the person to be told after the battle that they have been approved but that they are wait listed, so they have to wait.

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.

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 made the point earlier and I am not looking for a response but the witnesses from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform know the issue about public bodies not submitting their audited accounts and they have now seen what the HSE has achieved regarding what was in the first instance a far more difficult situation because they were not directly submitting their accounts to 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: We met each other in the midland region years ago so I am very familiar with him.

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: Could Mr. McCarthy say that 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: I will conclude by thanking our witnesses, people from the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Health, the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts. The committee will adjourn until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 9 November 2017 when we will meet representatives of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will have access to special services as required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45445/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Expenditure (25 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the costs incurred by An Garda Síochána and his Department in 2016 and to date in 2017 in respect of the examination and the proposal to re-open Stepaside garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45242/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (25 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the national criteria and the process and procedures involved in respect of examination of emergency departments in hospitals throughout the country in which services are being reviewed; the number of emergency departments being considered as part of this review; the criteria for selecting particular emergency departments for review; and if he will make a...