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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 want to be helpful in getting the information. Is it a list that Mr. Woods can request by e-mail in order that it can be circulated to members?
- 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: Who are they? Do they include Mr. McDonald?
- 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: The challenges that face the HSE in respect of those days are considerable when one looks at it in the stark light of each individual hospital. An explanation needs to be given as to why some hospitals have dramatically reduced the number of days while others seem to have ignored the agreement in place because the numbers have shot back up again. We need to understand these figures clearly...
- 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 asked for the worst examples.
- 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: We are more interested in the worst examples. We have listened to this at several meetings and yet failed to get the information in a way that is clearly understood. It is about time we were given the information so that it is crystal clear. So Ennis, instead of going in the right direction went the wrong direction.
- 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 take that as a statement rather than as a question because we are getting into an area which is not really one for this committee. I appreciate, however, the Deputy's concerns and why she wishes to raise the matter. Does Mr. O'Brien want to answer?
- 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: On the question of consultants, is it possible to get a list of four or five hospitals, without naming them? We have an average number of days of 62, 44 and 30. Can we receive a list of a number of hospitals indicating how many days they might be out, without naming the hospitals, in order that we can get beyond the average figure and look at the detail? It seems that it is a very...
- 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 remind Deputy McDonald that the overall position is one of policy and to frame her question accordingly.
- 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 invite Mr. O'Brien to make his opening statement.
- 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 we publish the statement?
- 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 remind witnesses, members and those in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile phones because they interfere with the sound quality of the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. If they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to do so, they...
- 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: Will the official from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, please, introduce himself?
- 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 now call on the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, to introduce the accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: Item No. 1 is the minutes of the meeting of 18 April which have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. On item No. 2, matters arising from the minutes, a note from the committee liaison officer has been circulated to members on the bodies that fall outside the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General, with a note on the accountability of the Central Bank. Do members have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: However, that letter is to be sent. Is that so? We are still doing it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: Item No. 3 is correspondence received since 18 April. No. 3A is correspondence from Accounting Officers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence, dated 9 April 2013, from Mr. John Tierney, chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, forwarding information previously requested by the committee regarding its examination of Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: In the context of what we might hear next week, representatives of NAMA and other witnesses can be considered, once we have an idea of where we are going with it. No. 3A.3 is correspondence, dated 23 April 2013, from Ms Niamh O’Donoghue, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection, providing further information requested at the meeting of 14 March 2013. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: Therefore, we do not have the details.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: The clerk should flag the issue to ensure we receive a response. Item No. 3B is individual correspondence. No. 3B.1 is correspondence, dated 23 March 2013, from Mr. Pat Geoghegan, secretary of the Irish Environmental Forum, regarding the Environmental Protection Agency. The correspondence is to be noted. Mr Geoghegan has raised issues regarding the competency of the EPA. It appears that...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Rates (24 Apr 2013)
John McGuinness: 22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18958/13]