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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (19 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [49221/13]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: The HSE was looking after it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: That brings us to the end of the meeting. Is it agreed to dispose of Chapter 22 of the 2012 report of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Agreed. I thank the witnesses for their attendance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Regarding the medical cards, I welcome that the Health Service Executive is getting all these systems in place to analyse how it spends that much money on the medical cards and that in future it will be able to give us much more information. I welcome also that it is getting control of the vast bulk of the applications but if I filled the Gallery this morning with people who had their...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: It is not just one.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: That is the letter that is going out now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: It is more helpful than what was there.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: I will finish on this because Deputies want to contribute. Regarding what Mr. McLoughlin said earlier about informing and educating people and upskilling the people in the call centres, it might be no harm if we were brought into the loop because we are the ones at the coalface dealing with some of the legitimate cases that are not being acknowledged for one reason or another in the HSE's...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: I am asking specifically about this application.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Was the application this year not a formal submission?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: As the manager of the HSE, what is the earliest date Mr. O'Brien would expect a decision to be made? We are tired of listening to the Department tell us that they do not have the systems in place. It is important for the HSE that the systems are in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Before I turn to the communications section could Dr. McLoughlin indicate whether he will answer parliamentary questions when he becomes Accounting Officer in 2015 or will he refer them to the HSE?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: What about the parliamentary questions of the rest of my colleagues as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: When we table parliamentary questions they are referred to the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: No, I refer to the system of parliamentary questions in the House. Currently, questions to the Department are referred to the HSE. One has to wait a long time before one gets some answers, in particular to urgent questions. The norm for parliamentary questions is that they are answered within three or four days. Will Dr. McLoughlin adopt such an approach or is that a policy matter?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Will Dr. McLoughlin insist on the HSE delivering the information to him in a prompt fashion? I am trying to get a feel for the direction Dr. McLoughlin will take.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: On the communication about the medical card system, Dr. McLoughlin said 200 staff are involved in the processing of medical cards. Does that include the communications area? Dr. McLoughlin referred to a helpline and additional staff numbers for information campaigns. Are they over and above the 200 staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: When people ring to inquire about the medical card system are they ringing a call centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: The staff are appropriately trained for the purpose. What is the cost of the call centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: The HSE has 200 staff employed on the processing of medical cards but there is an additional cost for the outsourcing of the communications element of the work.