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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Okay. Was it for additional work above and beyond?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I beg your pardon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Would that involve double time or triple time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Absolutely, I understand that. On average, how many hours per week would the consultants be working - these high-end earners about whom we are talking?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: They would, therefore, be working more than 40 hours per week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: These individuals would be carrying out operations and life-saving procedures. Who oversees the number of hours to ensure the hours being worked are safe? If we look at, for example, truck drivers, there is a very robust system in place called the tacograph system to ensure that they operate within safe working hours and times. What procedures are in place to govern consultants who carry...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: The Comptroller and Auditor General clearly identified concerns regarding internal control gaps. What control gaps in respect of additional hours have been identified by the HSE?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Okay. I thank everyone for that. I want to move on to a completely different area, which is the dental treatment services scheme. When the witnesses appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts previously, I raised serious concerns I had in terms of the failure to address the serious shortcomings regarding that scheme. I gave figures relating to my own county where 70% of dentists who...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I am conscious of the time. Mr. Walsh might perhaps just give us the most recent. How much has been-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: On those figures, in 2023, it was €43 million. In 2022, €50 million had been allocated for the provision of the scheme over the course of the year. What was the total amount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: They were the claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Okay, so, the claims figure is going up-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: -----but the number of dentists continues to go down.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: We are probably close to rock bottom. There are not too many left to jump out of the scheme. The counterargument would be that we are at rock bottom and the impact on my constituents and constituents right across the State is they can not get a dentist for love nor money. That is the crux of the issue. Where are we in the negotiations with dentists and representative organisations to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: It is not working. What is happening is that ordinary people, who do not have the means or resources, are having to pay out considerable amounts of money to private practitioners to address-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: There clearly are serious failures there that need to be immediately addressed. I want to move on to another area for the last few minutes, namely, the portfolio of properties held by the HSE across the State. We know there is a considerable portfolio of over 4,000 properties across the State, but I want to focus on derelict and vacant properties held by the HSE. How many properties in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Are they vacant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: About 400.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Is the database listing those vacant properties publicly accessible?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: On average, how many hours per week would those high-end earners be working? Would Mr. Mulvany have those figures?