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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I am conscious of the time. Mr. Walsh might perhaps just give us the most recent. How much has been-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: On those figures, in 2023, it was €43 million. In 2022, €50 million had been allocated for the provision of the scheme over the course of the year. What was the total amount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: They were the claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Okay, so, the claims figure is going up-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: -----but the number of dentists continues to go down.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: We are probably close to rock bottom. There are not too many left to jump out of the scheme. The counterargument would be that we are at rock bottom and the impact on my constituents and constituents right across the State is they can not get a dentist for love nor money. That is the crux of the issue. Where are we in the negotiations with dentists and representative organisations to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: It is not working. What is happening is that ordinary people, who do not have the means or resources, are having to pay out considerable amounts of money to private practitioners to address-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: There clearly are serious failures there that need to be immediately addressed. I want to move on to another area for the last few minutes, namely, the portfolio of properties held by the HSE across the State. We know there is a considerable portfolio of over 4,000 properties across the State, but I want to focus on derelict and vacant properties held by the HSE. How many properties in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Are they vacant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: About 400.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Is the database listing those vacant properties publicly accessible?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: On average, how many hours per week would those high-end earners be working? Would Mr. Mulvany have those figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I ask that the committee is furnished with an itemised breakdown of where those properties are in each county across the State, and how long those properties have been vacant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I know a fairly lengthy process is involved. Looking at my own constituency, there are a number of properties there. I am very conscious that there are over 12,600 homeless people in the State and that up to 400 State-owned properties that are lying vacant. Is there a value on the portfolio of vacant properties?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Okay, so there is no value on the assets that are vacant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Can that be furnished to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Can we also get details on the square footage or area in square metres of the assets that are vacant? Can that information be provided to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: The HSE is trying its best. Mr. Mulvany said it is linked in with the OPW in a process. Surely that information is centrally held. I referenced the figure of 12,691 people who are homeless in the State. There are people who have come to this country for international protection who are living in tents, and there are 400 properties that are held by the HSE in a derelict or vacant state.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: Just one last question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
John Brady: I have one last question on the information that the HSE is going to furnish to the committee. I also ask that details are provided of the cost in terms of how much it is for the upkeep of those vacant properties, including security provided, to keep them.