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Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Looking at information on section 38 and 39 agencies from parliamentary questions I have raised and from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, Enable Ireland, for example, showed a variety of different spends in various areas. Is there a postcode lottery with service provision? For example, in the case of Enable Ireland services, it depends if one has an organisation in one's area....

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The funding gives us a historical insight into quite a dysfunctional pattern of service provision. According to paragraph No. 19.28 on page 267 of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, €1.79 billion was provided for voluntary and community agencies, excluding hospitals. Paragraph 19.29 reads: "The HSE stated that it is establishing a strategic community costing programme...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It seems that governance and administration costs are built into funding for section 38 and 39 organisations and that there is also a cost within the HSE as regards oversight of those organisations. We have heard about whether the sample was targeted and a known problem was picked out. There is oversight yet again by an external body, such as Deloitte in this case, and is likely to be an...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Essentially. It difficult to have a rights-based approach if one does not have control of the organisation or if there is such a variety of organisations that the application and standards in areas differ.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have asked questions on home help hours, personal care hours and so on. To be honest, provision of these services does not correlate to population densities. It seems to need a major rationalisation. Regarding Benefacts, do section 38 bodies have to publish their audits? Do they provide them to anyone?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Where is the oversight if they are not published?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is that a gap in oversight?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Are those that are not publicly available from large organisations?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am looking for where there might be gaps and where we might not be seeing things that we should be scrutinising.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: May we have a list of those that are not required to publish?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses might send it on to us. Mr. O'Brien dealt with the issue of salaries in section 39 organisations just before the break. Has it been built into their funding mechanism? There were salary cuts when the crash happened. Has the restoration of funding from the HSE to those organisations taken account of public service pay provisions? Staff in these organisations are not public...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will ask the Department about this. Section 39s were subject to cuts. One would have expected a quid pro quo, in that, when there was some recovery, the same criteria would have applied. It is undoubtedly leading to a different pattern of service delivery, in that there cannot be a continuity of care.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: They were cut to the bone from what I can see. There will be a deficiency of service because if there is an option to go and work somewhere else, people will choose it. I definitely see that pattern. It is not just about people's pay. It will be about the ability to deliver services too. Mr. Dempsey tells me that the Department of Finance essentially does not give the Department of...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Vulnerable people are impacted by it. I will address non-compliance with procurement. Seven out of nine agencies that were visited were found to have breached compliance with regard to procurement. What visits were made to make sure that there was compliance? What efforts did the HSE make?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It seems that there was a very high level of non-compliance in those visited. It strikes me as something that would be a red flag to follow up on. The HSE has the ability to withhold funding for service level agreements. Does it cut funding or withhold it?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses mentioned St. John of God earlier, and St. Raphael's featured very heavily. It was an area that we discussed at a previous meeting. There had been quite substantial unapproved increases in salaries. Were repayments sought for those? Where is it at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is this the first time that sort of thing has happened regarding the seeking of a repayment?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What timeline are we working to for a conclusion of this?

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The way in which the Bill has been framed gives us a clue about how exactly this will play out. I do not believe anybody in the Chamber is opposed to water conservation. How one achieves it and how one invests public funds are important. The legislation suggests there is a requirement to have every household metered. If that is the case, it is to find excessive use. An awful lot of...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I would like the Minister to respond to my question about a cost-benefit analysis. If the Government is to introduce a system such as this, install additional water meters and impose a charge per household, how much will it cost to administer the system, read and service meters and operate a call centre and what will be the return? It is important that Deputies have this information.