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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 Murphy: Yes.

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

Catherine Murphy: One panel had approximately 200 clinical psychologists on it. Before that panel is exhausted, a new panel is opened up. From an administrative point of view, it seems incredibly wasteful.

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

Catherine Murphy: So it is time dependent.

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

Catherine Murphy: I did not really even mean to ask those questions. I had a number of other questions I wanted to ask. Obviously, the history of the health boards goes back to the mid-19th century. Change has been incremental. There still appears to be a great deal of fragmentation in the HSE. It can be quite difficult to find services or even figure out funding. I recently put a question to every...

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

Catherine Murphy: Presumably, it is an overall approach and not a piecemeal approach to putting it together. Very often, we have seen add-ons.

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

Catherine Murphy: I can see the value on the procurement side. I return to one of the issues I raised earlier. Somebody asked Mr. O'Brien about his salary and he said it is on the public record. I only use that as a benchmark against some of the issues regarding St. John of Gods. The same kinds of things arose with Rehab. Newspaper articles have outlined some salaries, including one in the region of...

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

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

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

Catherine Murphy: If there are now contractual liabilities that have been discharged, is it likely that the public pot could inadvertently end up with a liability?

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

Catherine Murphy: I will just go through a number of other things. I know that this is the Public Accounts Committee but funding and service provision are opposite sides of the same coin. From newspaper reports and from talking to recipients of the service, there is a very definite feeling that the services are on a knife edge. There is a Catch-22 situation in that the HSE is trying to regularise issues in...

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

Catherine Murphy: Let us go back on this point again because it relates to what we talked about this morning. We had a service provider say that it was under-funded for a very vulnerable person who ultimately ended up getting a judgment in the High Court. The priority is not the service provider, it is the service user. There is a stark contrast between the service being provided by that particular service...

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

Catherine Murphy: Right.

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

Catherine Murphy: I completely accept that. In accepting that, however, we cannot lost sight of, say, the very vulnerable six-year old in a special school who is now getting cold food because there is no money, or of the adult who cannot reach services because no transport has been provided for him.

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

Catherine Murphy: I share Mr. O'Brien's concern over the sharing of that very large amount of money among a small group of people and I think that it has done incredible damage.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 174. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount paid by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement to companies (details supplied) regarding a court case involving the ODCE and a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27993/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Data (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of work permits granted for non-EU nationals to work in the hotel industry and as chefs here in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28286/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance the appeals process open to a person who has gone through all stages of mediation with the Revenue Commissioners and revenue sheriffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid to Revenue sheriffs by persons that decided to purchase back assets that were the subject of a warrant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26875/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of warrants issued for the collection of debts owed to the Revenue Commissioners by Revenue sheriffs in the past five years and to date in 2017, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26879/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 24 May 2017, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a bank (details supplied) appears to have changed its interpretation of IAS 39, a standard which was heavily criticised during the recent bank inquiry but was nevertheless used by to hide losses in the past; if the bank has since corrected its...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 231. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of leases in each of the past five years for which figures are available on which stamp duty on residential leases has been paid at the 1% rate; the yield on this in each of these years; the specific statutory basis for the current exemption threshold of €30,000; the basis on which this has been set at this level; the date it was last...