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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: As my mother repeatedly reminds me, we pay for our health services three times as taxpayers: once as a taxpayer, once with our private health insurance and once at the point of service. Getting control of our overspending and making sure that goods and services are procured appropriately and there is good control and oversight are essential. In terms of the non-compliant procurement, is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Does Mr. Gloster think the IFMS will substantially deal with the non-compliance found?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: I have worked in organisations that had SAP. It is a good system and is something we need with our health service. Are the service agreements with the voluntary hospital groups negotiated annually?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Are there particular repeat offenders in terms of delaying signing off on them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Can Mr. Gloster give me a few examples?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: That is unsustainable and not acceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: I appreciate that. I am just conscious of the time. Voluntary groups are citing obstacles or challenges, but can it not be put into the service agreement that they must integrate IFMS?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Have they already signed it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Are there hospitals that do not sign up to the service level agreement on an annual basis?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: I assume that from year to year the agreements are fairly similar. Speaking as a lawyer, it would be very strange that one would have to negotiate for another 11 or 12 months.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: It is retrospective.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: How do the service level agreements work? With a hospital, does the HSE say that if it does X number of heart surgeries, it will give it Y amount of funding or does it just give the hospital an open-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Does the HSE have any suspicions that the taxpayer is paying for services that are not being delivered?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: What can the HSE use to get that oversight to understand what the position is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: That is good. In terms of the section 38 hospitals, will the service level agreements include performance levels?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Going forward will we be able to track that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Is SAP HR being deployed across all HSE sites and voluntary hospitals and is there any pushback on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Dr. Withero does not have long.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Is there any pushback from those hospitals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Will it address all of the overpayments, etc?