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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: The issue I want to raise is that of part-time retained firefighters. This is affecting all the stations in rural areas outside the main cities. It is a significant problem across Laois-Offaly. Firefighters are leaving and there is difficulty recruiting. The issues are terms and conditions, including rosters. There is a review, which the Taoiseach told me a few months ago would not be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Time is of the essence.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's plans in relation to encouraging the implementation of social and green clauses in public procurement contracts across the State; and if he will provide an example of the action his Department has taken to increase the use of these clauses. [48207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: 561. To ask the Minister for Health when agency workers in the health services and those employed as frontline workers in private nursing homes will receive the €1,000 pandemic bonus payment. [47880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if the funding for payment of the €1,000 pandemic bonus payment has been transferred to the accounts of private nursing homes and the accounts of agencies in the health sector; and if so, the date that the transfer took place. [47890/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to the meeting. Apologies have been received from Deputy Munster. If attending in the committee room, which everyone is this morning, or from the precincts of Leinster House, attendees are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others against the risk of contracting Covid-19, which I hear is back again. Members attending remotely must do so...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I welcome Mr. Mulvany back to the committee and I wish him well in his new role. He is back in a different position today. We might say he is in the hot seat. It is detailed in the letter of invitation that he has five minutes for his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Devlin is next.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy may continue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: In relation to Dublin Fire Brigade, I want to ask Mr. Morton about the figure of 16%. The expenditure was €9 million in 2021 or 16%. The overall budget is in excess of €200 million for ambulances.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Are the figures of €9 million and 16% in 2021 correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I know it is a valuable service and it compares very well. I know that this is not the main issue with ambulance services, because the main thing is to save lives and to improve people's medical conditions. Does it compare favourably in terms of the cost per ambulance and the cost per response and everything with service across the State?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is good to hear that. I thank Mr. Morton. We will break and we will resume in ten minutes sharp.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: The next committee member is Deputy Colm Burke who has ten minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: May I ask about the pandemic bonus? I know that one of the members referred to it earlier but I would like further clarity. I have had more letters about this again this morning from constituents, from Sharon, Caitríona and so on. Every day come emails, letters and phone calls about people working on the front line, in private nursing homes, in the HSE itself or with agencies. May I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I have tabled parliamentary questions about this. It was mentioned that the HSE hopes to have the payment made by the end of the year. Does that include the private nursing homes and agencies?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. It is an issue. The witnesses can understand. I could quote from the letters I have received. Sharon says she has put herself and her family at risk, put her patients' welfare before that of her children, contracted Covid-19 so many times during the course of the pandemic and put her own health in jeopardy. The witnesses can understand-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I appreciate that. I am just asking that every effort be made. I will revert to the ambulances. Last year, I think, at a meeting of the committee, I raised with Paul Reid the issue of dynamic deployment and the fact that a number of ambulances were quickly deployed from, for example, County Laois or County Offaly to Wexford or Waterford. When they are three quarters of the way there...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: How long has that been in operation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: There have not been as many complaints in the past few months, either from staff or members of the public.