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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: Can Mr. O'Brien let us have some of those figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: I should remind members again that there is significant interference from mobile phones in the committee room. The broadcasting unit has brought this to our attention again. I would ask members to check their mobile phones and ensure they are switched off because they interfere with the quality of the sound transmission from the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: Does the HSE have the information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: Like the electronic voting machines.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: Is a list available of the relevant hospitals with the number of forms outstanding for each hospital?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: It might add further pressure to those concerned in the hospitals if the value of the list and the associated hospitals and the number of forms were known.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: We can hold off on that for the moment and we will insist in every way we can.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: Let me refer to the meeting of 28 June 2012, on which date Mr. Magee was before us, and check on progress. Mr. Magee informed members that Dr. Geraldine Smith would lead a forensic audit of the remuneration relating to section 38 providers. Is that complete or is it near completion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: Will that be published or made available to the Committee of Public Accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: On the section 39 grants to the voluntary sector in respect of disability and so on, members again were told by Mr. Magee that following the review of the section 38 providers, the HSE might possibly review section 39 in terms of how it operated. He stated, "I have asked Dr. Smith to look at senior management remuneration and privately and publicly funded elements". I refer to this issue...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: Again in respect of section 39, it was suggested that putting in place a panel of auditors might be a way to have oversight of all the different bodies that draw down various grants from the HSE, thereby providing greater detail to the HSE - and after that to the Committee of Public Accounts - in respect of how this money is spent. Does Mr. O'Brien envisage the HSE continuing to consider...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: It has not been decided on yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: To clarify before we conclude, what was the date for submission of the information the HSE has requested from the voluntary sector? When does the HSE expect that information to be in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: Within a week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: As this relates to 37,000 staff and the allowances that might be paid to them, there is a need for the entire sector covered by sections 38 and 39 to get its house in order, just as much as there is for the HSE, in the context of the accounts systems, and for the reports to be in order. Even if they are coming from different systems, one should not need to wait for so long before the type of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: I thank the witnesses for their attendance.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address lone parent family distress in Budget 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter [49891/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Trader's Licence (13 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Finance the consultation that has taken place between Revenue and fuel retailers relevant to the fees charged and the new regulations in respect of a fuel traders licence; if consideration was given to the costs involved for smaller operators in this sector relevant to the new compliance requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49691/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Nov 2012)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when benefit will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied); if she will expedite the matter. [49875/12]