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Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What is the figure? I had it out but I have lost it.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Yes. The witnesses have given me the number of buildings which are leased. It is note 23.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: And the leasehold is 899.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What is the figure for that?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is €181 million.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Can Mr. Mulvany come back to me with that? It is a colossal amount of rent.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I think so. I have seen many premises rented in Galway city in my time. We had to fight to stop the leasing of more premises, including a finance office opposite the hospital in the private sector. At no stage were buildings built. I forget the figures but they were astronomical. Such was the high rent being paid for a premises on the Seamus Quirke Road that it was in the interests of the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: These are important figures because, to take the example of Galway again, I understand the Health Service Executive is paying €250,000 per annum to rent the building that houses the primary care centre recently opened on the east side of the city.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. To return to policy, why is the HSE not building primary care centres as opposed to paying out money in rent, including a minimum of €250,000 in the case I mentioned?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Were they directly built?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am asking about direct build of a Health Service Executive owned premises as opposed to paying-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is not the same result. To use the example of Galway again, an annual rent of €250,000 is being paid by the Health Service Executive.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: A rent of €250,000 is being paid from public money.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I did not say anything about a PPP. I am referring to primary care centres. The simplest thing the HSE could do is provide me with a list of the primary care centres that have been rolled out, indicating whether the HSE owns them directly, whether they have been procured under a public private partnership and will eventually revert to the HSE or whether they are owned by private consultants...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Lovely. I have tabled parliamentary questions on a case involving physiotherapy services. I want the witnesses to respond specifically and generally to the example I will give. A person retired from or left a physiotherapy post in An Cheathrú Rua i gCroílár na Gaeltachta. We received a series of letters indicating the post would be filled in due course. Subsequently,...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that. There are two points here.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have received an answer indicating the HSE will not fill the post.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Let me stick with this issue for a moment. For months, I received correspondence indicating the post would be filled. Approximately two weeks ago, I was told a decision had been made at national level not to fill the post as there was no money or resources available and that patients from Connemara could go into Galway city.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is there a lack of resources to fill the post?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Let me ask a general question. When a post remains empty does a policy kick in whereby the post will no longer be filled and that is the end of the post? Is that a national policy?