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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: Could it be done faster with greater investment? I personally think it is the most important part of the health service if we want to support nurses, doctors and, ultimately, patients.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: Has the HSE matched it with an appropriate culture of change management?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: Will the HSE manage the change management process or outsource it?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: I appreciate it is complex but I am glad to hear it. We all will benefit from that in the long term. Going back to less exciting matters perhaps, I want to talk about the section 39 agencies. We are still hearing that they are not being funded. They are still having to deliver staff increments, based on various legislation around that, but their budgets are not matching it.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: Is it fair that we have section 39 agencies which are trying to provide a service that is covered by employment law which means that they have to give increments, which their budgets do not allow for, and yet we are asking them to provide increased services for those with disability? It is really tough and, ultimately, it is the patients who are suffering.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: There are significant problems in this regard because such agencies cannot sustain their staff. The majority of those working in these services are not high earners and the increments are a percentage of their earnings. I am hearing about a lot of issues from parents of children with disability or adults with disability. There was supposed to be greater integration of services, such as...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: I am aware of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: I assume the vision for change in the disability sector, where the users would be able to choose where they spend their money, will have an effect as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: My last question is about the budget in the home help area, particularly in Cork. I am getting parochial now. We are constantly being told that there is no budget to increase home help hours. I am not saying home help hours have been decreased because they have not been but the demand is increasing. It is a concern on the ground. As we all know, the home help service does vital work. It...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: I appreciate that. Obviously, we have all been under budgetary constraints due to the economy, etc. Looking at it from an innovative point of view, this is a problem that will increase as ever more people are ageing and they need support in their homes. A lot of people would be happy to contribute. While they might get a certain amount of hours supported by the HSE or by the taxpayer,...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: I appreciate that and I know that such agencies are available. My concern, obviously, is that they are three or four times more expensive and people cannot afford them. From the point of view of continuity of service for the elderly person concerned, he or she might have, for example, an hour's home help. The elderly person might have two or three different individuals providing that who...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: That is a legislative issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: I thank the officials.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Áine Collins: I will conclude by putting a statement on the record in respect of the conversation earlier regarding Mr. O'Brien attending conferences abroad and so on. In regard to the suggestion that he should not be doing so, I take a different view. It is important that Mr. O'Brien, officials of the HSE and various Departments attend conferences abroad to hear and learn about what is going on in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (3 Nov 2015)

Áine Collins: 475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork [38261/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Regulations (3 Nov 2015)

Áine Collins: 1111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why it is necessary to confine the period for bush burning to such a limited timespan. [38334/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (3 Nov 2015)

Áine Collins: 1189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason applicants in isolated rural areas are finding it difficult to obtain a rural local area hackney licence; why the current system is not working; why the National Transport Authority is not currently issuing either ordinary taxi licences or hackney licences. [38305/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (3 Nov 2015)

Áine Collins: 1196. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht why it is necessary to confine the period for bush burning to such a limited time span. [38333/15]