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Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State should not start. I will take it from my colleague beside me but I might not take it from a Minister.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We now know something. We know that the Government does not know how much this outside agency will be paid. I thought somewhere along the way we had got a commitment that this would never happen again and that we would not allow these sorts of dangerous, open-ended contracts to private sector advisers, supporters, consultants or experts because of what happened with PPARS in particular. We...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State does not know how much it will cost, though.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State does not know how much it will cost——

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Is the Minister of State on or off the record?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was not going to press it, but I may do so now. We do not know how much this will cost. We do not know what the cap was nor do we know the identity of the company and we have been given spurious reasons for this. As Senator Leyden said very well, there is a myth that the HSE is not involved in any schemes to pay out money, but it is involved in schemes. The Minister of State tells me that...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State does not know that.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I wish to ask one question on the amendment. Did the Government instruct the HSE to put performance indicators into the contract against which the efficiency of the contracting party would be measured?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The answer obviously is that it did not.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Nothing has been learnt.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I understand that everybody who is due to receive a repayment will have been in a public hospital. That represents the overwhelming bulk of those concerned. Therefore, their records will be held by the HSE. An outside body will now have to trawl through those records. It will either ask the HSE for this information, in which case employees of the HSE will have to dig through their records and...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: To pay the HSE.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The House should read section 17 which states: (1) Where it comes to the knowledge of the scheme administrator that— (a) all or part of the payment of a prescribed repayment to a person has been procured through fraud or misrepresentation, or (b) there has been an overpayment of a prescribed repayment to, or in respect of, a person, then the scheme administrator shall make a report thereon...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, subsection (2), line 19, after "enactment" to insert "or under any other scheme for the assessment". Unlike some of the other amendments, which I suppose were a little contentious, this amendment and amendments Nos. 6 and 7 represent a simple attempt on my part to clarify something. Amendment No. 5 relates to any assessment of people's means by the State,...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: My concerns are legitimate. Do I understand correctly that the moneys given to people who receive State payments which are the subject of a means test which is not based on an enactment will be reduced because they receive repayments under this legislation? It seems the Minister of State is saying they want to leave a possibility in place for people who receive payments which are not covered....

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Does the Minister of State trust him?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 6: In page 9, subsection (2), line 22, after "benefit" to insert "or assistance". When I tabled amendment No. 5, I thought I was simply being fussy, but I now realise I was actually raising a serious issue. It seems it is intended that the repayment to certain people of the money that was stolen from them by the State will affect them. I have proposed amendments Nos. 6...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Which part of them?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Department of Social and Family Affairs should be informed that it is the Government's intention that all statutorily-based social assistance schemes are included within the term "benefit".

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 12: "In page 19, subsection (16)(a), line 17, after "relates," to insert "or if the applicant had died or become incapable of acting, means a person affected by the decision,". Section 16 concerns appeals against decisions and begins, "An aggrieved person may", before going through a appeals procedure. Section 16(16) then introduces a definition of the term, "aggrieved...