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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I want to know the following. How much of the money is spent on transporting patients? How much of the money is used to transport files? A taxi service is used. My questions are based on certain information in my possession. Let us say a hospital wishes to transfer nine files. In that case, the hospital must ring nine different taxi services. Is there no scope within the system for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is that reviewed annually? Does it go out on a tender basis?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: If there are areas that do not do this, it is not because of a protocol or a rule but because they are not complying with best practice.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: We have a system where we use taxi services and we engage with them to try to get best value for money. It should not be a case that a person has to call nine taxis to transport nine files in one morning. If that is happening, it is down to bad practice in that particular area.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: If possible, perhaps Mr. Mulvany could come back to the committee in the next few days or weeks on the figures for each of the community healthcare organisations, CHOs.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is and I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for clarifying that because I have not seen that figure. I have only been looking at the mental health figures which have broken it down by ambulance and by taxi. In some areas we are spending nothing on transferring patients by ambulance but in CHO 7, for example, €270,000 was spent last year. These are significant figures and I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I would prefer if the bigger figure was broken down. I was just working off the mental health figures because that is the only information I had. A figure of €50 million is a significant amount of money.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Perhaps the committee could get a note on that figure because €50 million is a significant amount of money.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (11 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to implement changes in the VAT system exempting changes at EU level which could allow greater flexibility to Ireland in exempting certain services. [31033/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the decision in budget 2018 to reduce from seven to four years land must be held before it can be sold free of capital gains tax has contributed to a spike in the sale of commercial property in the first quarter of 2018. [31032/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability and Growth Pact (11 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance if the provisions of the Stability and Growth Pact allow for the withdrawal of the rainy day fund without breaching the existing fiscal rules. [29131/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Development Plan (11 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance if a proposal (details supplied) will be costed. [31134/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Now that the rainy day fund legislation has been published, will the Minister explain why he is confident that any decision to withdraw funding from the fund, if and when it is needed, will not breach the fiscal rules?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is the Minister's confidence based on an explicit guarantee given by the Commission?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister referred to capacity and investment in capital expenditure, noting the Government's proposal to increase capital expenditure by 25% next year to approximately €7.2 billion. There is a balance to be struck when increasing expenditure. Are there any concerns about capacity and meeting the needs to implement that policy? Has the Minister had any discussions with the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: What about broadening the tax base?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Of the 221 women involved, as of last week, how many have taken proceedings, not necessarily against the laboratories but generally in connection with their smear test results, a failure to inform or a failure to address their circumstances in a timely fashion? According to the figures, three cases have been settled. What are we up to?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Outside those 40 cases, there are another 181 women. Has any of them taken a case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will rephrase the question. Before the Vicky Phelan case, had any of the 221 women that we now know of taken cases?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Was there a case settled in March 2017?