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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I will not go back to the discussion on the fair deal, but I hope those who are waiting for the fair deal, who have been approved and assessed but are still in their own home, will get priority. It was mentioned earlier that it was a case of hardship. Most of those people are suffering hardship. They have been approved for 24/7 care in a home and their families are anxious they get that....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I thank the witnesses for attending. I ask the committee now to dispose of Vote 40 and the HSE Annual Financial Statements 2011. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I would like to reflect on this for a minute. I read in a report that the HSE has approximately 70,000 vendors - people who provide goods and services to it. Most of the answers given today, in response to the aged debt issue that was raised by Deputy O'Donnell and other matters, would be on the tip of the tongue of most people in the commercial world. They would need to have that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I do not wish to reduce job numbers or threaten people who are in that section. Has a comparison ever been made between the cost of providing the payroll system in-house and the cost of a commercial solution that might be outsourced? It costs approximately €22 million for over 200 people to provide it in-house. I know there is a problem in this regard because of the Croke Park agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Can Mr. Woods estimate what the potential savings might be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Presumably there could be other cost savings.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: One could reduce the €22 million cost by almost half.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Would it be possible for the HSE to pursue this now, or does it have to await the outcome of the Croke Park II process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: It is peculiar that an Irish company can manage the different hours that staff work, the rotas and the payroll systems around rotas in big and complex organisations in the UK, but there is no work for it in Ireland.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I am not making the case for the company. I am simply saying that a solution to the HSE's software problem and its payroll costs is available. I would like to see the HSE actively progressing savings of that nature.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I do not think the HSE can ignore the type of savings that are being suggested. We will come back to this issue again. Between 3,000 and 3,500 organisations in the voluntary sector operate under sections 38 and 39 of the Health Act 2004. The last day we were here, we looked at the service level agreements with these organisations. It was discovered that there was some adherence to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Could Ms McGuinness comment on the other 3,000 organisations? Has the HSE investigated the service level agreements that are in place? Are they in place? Has the position improved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: I can take it that they are in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Can I take it that there is some way of policing their operation and ensuring they work?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: When an organisation from my constituency that operates under sections 38 and 39 raised a query about the management of its funds at an Oireachtas meeting, through a patient, I asked for a report on the fact that it is now being charged for services it was not charged for before. It takes a considerable length of time to get any information on it and, to date, I still have not received the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: It was said the Department of Health had employed PA Consulting, or was it the HSE that had employed that firm?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: What was the value of the contract with the Department of Health?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: How much is the contract with the HSE worth?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: That feeds into the analysis of the financial systems the HSE needs in terms of oversight. Was the Ogden report commissioned by the Department of Health? I assume Mr. O'Brien would not know the cost of that report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) John McGuinness: Would the Department know the cost of the Ogden report and the PA Consulting contract?