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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (29 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 62. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the funding cut to the Louth-Meath branch of an organisation (details supplied) for the running of the early intervention therapy programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23523/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (29 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 98. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the four fold increase since April 2016 in the number of outpatients waiting more than a year for a consultation in Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan. [23564/18]

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the Local Government Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the National Training Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the Economic and Social Research Institute
2017 Financial Statements of the Abbey Theatre (23 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I have one quick question for Mr. John McCarthy from the Customs House. He was before the committee a short time ago in respect of the special report and the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of the Local Government Fund and the many strands of funding that come into the Department. In his final points, he made reference to the fact that the fund is undergoing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the Local Government Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the National Training Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the Economic and Social Research Institute
2017 Financial Statements of the Abbey Theatre (23 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: The moneys will still find their way back into the local government system. Even through the moneys that are being paid are now being returned centrally to the Exchequer they will be distributed, through a different strand of funding, back to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the Local Government Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the National Training Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the Economic and Social Research Institute
2017 Financial Statements of the Abbey Theatre (23 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: We had a very detailed discussion on the last occasion the Department was before this committee in terms of that aspect of transparency. Mr. Seamus McCarthy referred to the complicated nature of the funding mechanism over decades, in terms of the way things amassed. Does this move lead to transparency? Does it help the Comptroller and Auditor General, in terms of the complexity of this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the Local Government Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the National Training Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the Economic and Social Research Institute
2017 Financial Statements of the Abbey Theatre (23 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Does the witness say that because it will now go directly to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport instead of having to go in to the Exchequer and then be sent back out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the Local Government Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the National Training Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the Economic and Social Research Institute
2017 Financial Statements of the Abbey Theatre (23 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I do not want to see a situation where the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government is in receipt of less money than it should be because of a switch in terms of where moneys go.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the Local Government Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the National Training Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the Economic and Social Research Institute
2017 Financial Statements of the Abbey Theatre (23 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: The Chairman is correct. Local authorities particularly would be in receipt of less money by virtue of a payment being made to the Exchequer rather than into the Local Government Fund.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the Local Government Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the National Training Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the Economic and Social Research Institute
2017 Financial Statements of the Abbey Theatre (23 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will not prejudge the matter either, like the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (23 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package allocation for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22875/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school building project (details supplied) did not commence construction in 2016 or 2017. [22445/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a new ASD unit and additional classrooms for a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22548/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (22 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of broadband to a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22552/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (22 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 419. To ask the Minister for Health the process for a person to receive access to a medical product (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22543/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: There are issues with the Department of Justice, the Garda, the Department of Health and NAMA.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the witnesses. I will start with the opening statements at the beginning of today's meeting and the reflection on the testimony from yesterday evening. I am conscious that the opening statements obviously were updated last night to take account of the testimony heard then. Given that, and that the testimony was from the people who were affected, I want to dwell on it. They are...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I am using Mr. Teap's words. I am not making this a charged environment. We had a key witness who lost his wife and was directly impacted. He chose his words very carefully and said the culture was to protect the system and to deny. I ask, with no false platitudes for that man, whether Mr. Breslin accepts his words last night, not that there was a falling down but that there was a culture...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I do not want Mr. Breslin to empathise with him, but to answer either "Yes" or "No". Does he accept the accuracy of Mr. Teap's words? I am not asking if Mr. Breslin has empathy with him, that he would feel the same way, but if he accepts what he has said, "Yes" or "No".

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I always say that witnesses' choice of language here is very important . There is a difference between not having an open culture and having a culture that seeks to protect and deny. It is a nuanced difference. Mr. Breslin says there is not a culture of openness. That is different from accepting that there is a culture of denying truth coming to the surface. If he is able to accept that...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Mr. Breslin is the head man, so I am asking about his sense of the organisation he controls, not just at managerial level but throughout it. We know from being in political parties that leadership comes from the top and that is reflective of the people and troops on the ground. If Mr. Breslin, as Accounting Officer, can accept that there is not a culture of openness in his organisation, can...