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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: Do the delegates not have that number here? It is so important. Have they no idea?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: It is staggering that they do not have it. How many are passed and how many are not is very important in the administration of how this works. Nobody can tell me that. Neither the Department of Health, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform nor the HSE can tell me what percentage are refused.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: Yes, but there are seven delegates here. I thought one of them would have the answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: What percentage of refusals are appealed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: How many of those get through on appeal?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: The majority?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: So we know 30% of refusals are appealed but an unknown number are successful.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: Fair enough. If the delegates could let us have the information on refusals promptly it would be useful.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: Politicians are involved in many of these representations to the Department. Do the witnesses know anything about how successful these representations from politicians are?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: So improper pressure is never put on the HSE?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: So a politician is just a filter, filling in the forms.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: Do the witnesses find that satisfactory.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: So the witnesses think politicians representing people on medical card eligibility is okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: I think I heard a witness say the HSE would review 1 million cards. Is that not bureaucracy gone crackers? How many people will be involved in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: There will be 200 personnel involved in reviewing medical cards full time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: How many people will be involved full time? Will it be 1 million reviews in a year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: I understand all that. Could I return to the question? The HSE is a very large organisation which, apparently, dedicates a large number of staff to reviews of medical cards. Would that be fair?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: I know what the Department is doing. How many person hours are involved per year? What does this massive exercise cost the HSE?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Shane Ross: I know, but what is the cost of it all?