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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Who could get that information for us?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Can we get the cost figures for the PA Consulting report for the Department of Health and the Ogden report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: On the financial systems required, we hear time and again that the legacy systems do not connect with each other and that most information at national level is compiled manually from these systems. I presume there has been a proposal made to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the cost of a new system or expanding the existing system within the organisation. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: What is the estimated cost of a new system to run across all HSE activities and bring all financial analyses together?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: What about seeking approval for such a contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Has the business case been prepared?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Have they not passed the test?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Different proposals would have been made during the years to that Department and CMOD. Having listened to the examination of this Vote and the activities of the HSE, would Mr. Heffernan's Department not consider it urgent that the matter be progressed more quickly in order that we can have the sort of financial analysis required? As I listened to some of the representatives of the HSE, they...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Has Mr. Woods produced the product?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I would like to reflect on this for a minute. I read in a report that the HSE has approximately 70,000 vendors - people who provide goods and services to it. Most of the answers given today, in response to the aged debt issue that was raised by Deputy O'Donnell and other matters, would be on the tip of the tongue of most people in the commercial world. They would need to have that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I do not wish to reduce job numbers or threaten people who are in that section. Has a comparison ever been made between the cost of providing the payroll system in-house and the cost of a commercial solution that might be outsourced? It costs approximately €22 million for over 200 people to provide it in-house. I know there is a problem in this regard because of the Croke Park agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Can Mr. Woods estimate what the potential savings might be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Presumably there could be other cost savings.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: One could reduce the €22 million cost by almost half.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Would it be possible for the HSE to pursue this now, or does it have to await the outcome of the Croke Park II process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: It is peculiar that an Irish company can manage the different hours that staff work, the rotas and the payroll systems around rotas in big and complex organisations in the UK, but there is no work for it in Ireland.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I am not making the case for the company. I am simply saying that a solution to the HSE's software problem and its payroll costs is available. I would like to see the HSE actively progressing savings of that nature.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I do not think the HSE can ignore the type of savings that are being suggested. We will come back to this issue again. Between 3,000 and 3,500 organisations in the voluntary sector operate under sections 38 and 39 of the Health Act 2004. The last day we were here, we looked at the service level agreements with these organisations. It was discovered that there was some adherence to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Could Ms McGuinness comment on the other 3,000 organisations? Has the HSE investigated the service level agreements that are in place? Are they in place? Has the position improved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I can take it that they are in place.