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- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (26 Nov 2013)
Robert Dowds: 638. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the petrol and diesel costs incurred by Health Service Executive staff in the Dublin mid-Leinster region for the past ten years. [50646/13]
- Topical Issue Debate: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (27 Nov 2013)
Robert Dowds: I thank the Minister for being in the Chamber to respond to this Topical Issue matter. I wish we did not have to discuss tobacco at all because it is a killer which does not have any beneficial effects for anybody, but it will come as no surprise to the Minister that there is a significant level of illegal tobacco sales in Ireland. The estimates fluctuate from 30% down to 15%, with the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (27 Nov 2013)
Robert Dowds: I thank the Minister for his reply. I wish to put on record my absolute condemnation of the treat by Philip Morris, the tobacco producer, to the Minister, the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly and, by extension, the State in terms of pursuing plain packaging. It is absolutely disgraceful given it is purveying a product which kills people. I fully support the Minister's efforts to bring in...
- Topical Issue Debate: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (27 Nov 2013)
Robert Dowds: Good.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and his colleagues and thank them for their assistance with this. This question may have been asked earlier. Is it possible these voluntary organisations can be brought before the Committee of Public Accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: I apologise. Obviously it was dealt with before I arrived. I wish to ask about two of the non-compliant organisations. I realise because they are non-compliant the witnesses may not be able to give me much in the way of answers. I wish to express an interest because I am on a leave of absence from a school under the patronage of the Central Remedial Clinic. I wish to ask about this...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: I apologise for being emotional, but it cuts deeply.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: How many?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: Did the CRC indicate from where the top-up fund came?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: This is one of the reasons the HSE is still seeking further information.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: I suggest that the HSE also audit the accounts of the two or three schools that are under the CRC's patronage. I appreciate that they are possibly not in the HSE's domain, but the Departments of Education and Skills and Health are closely interlinked in the organisation because it also provides health services for its clients.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: I am unaware of any profit making in CRC, but I have been asked to look into it. Has the practice we have been discussing stopped or does it apply to the new CEO?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: There is no large top-up as there was for the previous CEO.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: Turning to the question of sanctions and so on, obviously the HSE is not finished with its investigations, but what is in its armoury?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: Is that the same person who was previously the CEO of the Mater hospital and was referred to in the news print?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: I thank Mr. O'Brien. In asking about the two institutions, I will make the same point made by Deputy O'Donnell. It is a serious issue for these organisations when their good name is brought into question. The CRC and, even more so, the hospice at Harold's Cross are significantly dependent on the largesse of the public. I am concerned about the damage that will be done. I understand that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: Is Dr. Smith satisfied that all those payments are kosher or has she yet reached a conclusion in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) Robert Dowds: I am particularly concerned because I understand that approximately 70 to 80 posts within that organisation are funded through fund-raising. It would be very serious if their work had to be stopped.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children and Family Services (28 Nov 2013)
Robert Dowds: 149. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for improved children's services in the Clondalkin, Dublin 22 area. [51199/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children and Family Services (28 Nov 2013)
Robert Dowds: 150. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for improved children's services in the Lucan, County Dublin area. [51200/13]