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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department that the Chief State Solicitor's office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to date...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 189. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department that the Chief State Solicitor's office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively for each of the past three years and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Freedom of Information (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department that the Chief State Solicitor's office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department that the Chief State Solicitor's Office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017. [12777/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department that the Chief State Solicitor's office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 323. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department that the Chief State Solicitor's office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department that the Chief State Solicitor's office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 364. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department on which the Office of the Chief State Solicitor has incurred expenses for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to date...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 376. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department on which the Office of the Chief State Solicitor has incurred expenses for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Freedom of Information Requests (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 377. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department on which the Office of the Chief State Solicitor has incurred expenses for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017. [12772/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I do not propose to repeat the comments of previous speakers. Does the committee have any responsibilities in respect of the Charities Regulator given that the individual who we have been discussing is still active? It would be unconscionable if the same mistake were to be repeated.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I accept that fair procedure must be followed but our difficulty is that fair procedure is also required for the terms of reference that are being decided today. The timing is critically important if those terms of reference are to be right. I have a real issue with fair procedure and getting the terms of reference right from the perspective of the people who will be subject to this...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously standards have changed and a lot of that is welcome as regards people sharing and so on. We can see the 80:20 ratio between private and public and Mr. Healy has told us that there is a loss of beds. He has also identified capital needs for the 20% to bring them up to standard. Has the HSE actually opened any new beds or are there proposals to open any new beds under the public system?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There are some good examples in both the public and private sectors. However, the private sector may determine the location of nursing homes. In my own area, for example, there are quite a lot of nursing home facilities and people from Dublin will be located in County Kildare because of that. Some of that has to do with the availability of land. Some of the facilities tend to be on the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The HSE will scope out a value-for-money audit of the fair deal scheme. What will be included in that audit? Is it only a value-for-money audit or is there a quality-of-life element? There is a demand in that regard. For example, nursing home care has been identified as inappropriate for approximately 2,500 people, but there is no alternative. Is the HSE looking at a statutory element...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the officials for those replies. I wish to go back over some of the questions that were asked earlier about the fair deal scheme. When the scheme was initiated, property values were very different. Later on, the economic crash changed the potential income so the scheme varied a bit. If I remember rightly, a more forensic approach was then taken to people qualifying. In his...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If somebody qualifies for the fair deal scheme and go in for six months or a year, how is that calculated?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Okay, so there is no advantage to the HSE?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I just wanted to be sure about that. As regards people who are funded, St. Raphael's is in my constituency and people are in residential places there, but it is a different thing entirely. I wish to ask about the adequacy of funds in this regard. I have come across situations where people have been asked to provide money for a new mattress. How does Mr. Healy measure the adequacy of the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: As I understand it, 18 of the 32 administrative recommendations on financial assessments have been finalised. Have they been implemented at this stage?