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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: Can I take it that there is some way of policing their operation and ensuring they work?

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: When an organisation from my constituency that operates under sections 38 and 39 raised a query about the management of its funds at an Oireachtas meeting, through a patient, I asked for a report on the fact that it is now being charged for services it was not charged for before. It takes a considerable length of time to get any information on it and, to date, I still have not received the...

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: Finally, a report in the Irish Examiner on 16 January stated the HSE suggested charities' cash reserves offer a chance to cut grants. A further report related to the HSE's internal audit and findings. Will Mr. O'Brien comment on these? With regard to the internal audit having found various problems within the system throughout the country, have these problems been addressed? I would like...

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: In terms of the findings of the internal audit, are they provided to the Comptroller and Auditor General?

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: Is it possible we could get copies of them?

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: That would keep us informed of the issues. Has the HSE met with the troika recently?

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: How did they get on?

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: Did the troika demand anything in particular from the HSE in terms of accountability or anything else?

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 will not go back to the discussion on the fair deal, but I hope those who are waiting for the fair deal, who have been approved and assessed but are still in their own home, will get priority. It was mentioned earlier that it was a case of hardship. Most of those people are suffering hardship. They have been approved for 24/7 care in a home and their families are anxious they get that....

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 thank the witnesses for attending. I ask the committee now to dispose of Vote 40 and the HSE Annual Financial Statements 2011. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Other Questions: Online Business Voucher Scheme (30 Apr 2013)

John McGuinness: 93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the introduction of a business online voucher scheme. [20231/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (30 Apr 2013)

John McGuinness: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case being made by a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny relative to the retention of the behaviour for learning programme teacher as this post is essential to the school; if he will expedite a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20256/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (30 Apr 2013)

John McGuinness: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a balance of single farm payment due to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the current status of any claims they have with his Department;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19906/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Spatial Strategy (1 May 2013)

John McGuinness: 61. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeframe for the creation of a new national spatial strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20454/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Administration (1 May 2013)

John McGuinness: 53. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the programmes he intends to run under the Dormant Accounts Fund this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20468/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (1 May 2013)

John McGuinness: 250. To ask the Minister for Health if the correct figures for income and expenditure relative to an application for a medical card now under appeal will be examined in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the appeal will be expedited and approved. [20693/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (1 May 2013)

John McGuinness: 259. To ask the Minister for Health if the fair deal scheme will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny based on their assessment report and urgent need for residential care; the reason the approval of funds has not been granted; and if he will expedite the matter [20793/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)

John McGuinness: The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 25 April. Are they agreed to? Agreed. The following is the correspondence received since the meeting of 25 April. No. 3A is correspondence from Accounting Officers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence, dated 30 April 2013, from Mr. Michael O’Keeffe, chief executive, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, providing information...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)

John McGuinness: The HSE SIPTU fund. I thought we might get in the appropriate witnesses to deal with it at an early date, if that is agreed to by members.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2013)

John McGuinness: The Accounting Officer for the HSE, SIPTU and, presumably, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.