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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Is this a good news story?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Did I read the figures wrong?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That is the bonus for the day. I want discuss primary care. The Sláintecare report is a ten-year programme that has been rolled out. We all hear about primary care. We, as politicians and Ministers, refer to primary care and the Departments keep promoting primary care as the way forward and as a means to keep people out of hospitals and accident and emergency units. How far has the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: This will be rolled out with the help of GPs who will provide the primary care. Some GPs have tried to start up primary care centres but they have had to get out of the business because they could not afford it. Is money the problem in terms of getting GPs to work together? Usually what happens is that three or four GPs come together and they build a primary care centre with the grants...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Does that mean the HSE puts a building in place and rents it out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That is good news. This is my last question. I accept it is not under the remit of the Department but I wish to ask about the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. What is the role of the Department? Does the Department play a part in the management of the scheme and getting operations and reducing waiting lists? Does the Department negotiate with the NTPF, assist it and try to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: One can also go to Europe for treatment. Could Mr. Breslin explain the system to me? People have asked me about it and I want to be able to explain it to them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Is it still paid for by the taxpayer?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Does the HSE pay for that as well?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: Could we get a bit of information on that? I would like a written explanation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: That is better news altogether.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: They are always efficient down there.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (10 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be made available through Coillte for required repair and maintenance of paths at an amenity (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Costs (11 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the implementation of the recommendations made in the report by the working programme on reducing the cost of motor insurance; the number of recommendations that have not been implemented to date; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31035/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (11 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the works which have been completed on the Kilkenny river flood relief scheme encompassing towns (details supplied); the flood alleviation works outstanding in the area; when these works will be completed in their entirety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31335/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (11 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the works which have been completed on the Carlow river flood relief scheme encompassing Carlow, Leighlinbridge and Tullow; the flood alleviation works outstanding in the area; when these works will be completed in their entirety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31336/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Applications (11 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a felling licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31342/18]

Other Questions: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (12 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the level of direct support for the suckler cow herd will be increased to €200 per cow under the next CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31481/18]

Other Questions: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (12 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I tabled this question to highlight the necessity of prioritising the suckler sector through targeted supports for farmers who are under threat on many fronts. Although our farmers are well known for producing some of the best beef in the world, they continue to depend exclusively on CAP direct payments for their livelihood and have an average income of just under €13,000, according...

Other Questions: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (12 Jul 2018)

Bobby Aylward: We need the suckler cow industry and I have pointed out why we need to support it. It is one thing to discuss the cost of the carbon footprint and so on but how does that argument fit into the proposed importation of beef from Brazil, Argentina or elsewhere to Europe to subsidise what could be produced here? It is nonsense. The Minister discussed maintaining a viable farming suckler cow...