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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It is not possible to cost the savings that would come from, say, abolishing an allowance. According to this table I do not have the full estimated annual cost for that allowance because it does not include a significant number of people in the voluntary sector who may be receiving the allowance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It is just that it has been some time, and the HSE had to compile it. That was very difficult work for it to do but it did it in the timeframe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I am sorry. That is clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I take that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: In terms of the detail the HSE had to give in February, I understand we have more details here today and that is helpful. It is an important part of the process the Committee of Public Accounts is engaged in because we are drilling down, so to speak, into the real detail about the way the systems and the structures work but what detail would have been given in February? Was it that this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: How did that information get to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? Does it go through the Secretary General of the Department of Health or through the Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Did the recommendations such as the one to abolish an allowance for a new entrant go on the approval of the Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It would be a Secretary General recommendation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: The Secretary General would have reviewed all the information and would have had a recommendation made to him by an Assistant Secretary or-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: We have the business cases going from the Department to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform making recommendations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Each Department compiled business cases and each business case recommended the allowance be retained or-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: In this instance it would have been the Secretary General who agreed with these recommendations and that they should be sent to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform the Minister to review them all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It would have been under his authority that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform gets all this information coming into it and almost across the board it is recommendations that the allowances should not be touched or that an allowance would be maintained.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: What I am interested in is when that information was sent because we are now looking at a list of 88 allowances that have been expedited. When the information went from the Department of Health in February it also had a list it wanted to continue to examine to determine if it could abolish them for either new entrants or existing beneficiaries.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I believe the recommendations that came from each Department would have formed the basis of the initial outcome of that first stage of the process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: What have been published?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: The business cases have been published but who signed off on the business cases? Who was giving approval to the recommendation as to these allowances?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: But responsibility would lie with the Secretary General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances (8 Nov 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: And the Secretary General would have agreed that these are robust business cases, approved the recommendations and sent them on.