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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Department has done comparative analysis of the funding. Has it done comparative analysis of productivity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Per euro, then, what is the difference between ourselves and the European average in terms of productivity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Can Mr. Moloney give us any productivity comparative analysis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It does seem amazing because when we are talking about funding, comparative analysis in terms of funding is regularly used as one of the answers. The flip side of the experience is the productivity of the system and the Department does not have comparative analysis on productivity in terms of the HSE and other European countries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Any system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Do we know how many layers of management exist per head of population in each country in Europe and where Ireland stands on that? Many people feel that the HSE is phenomenally bureaucratic. It is opaque in terms of its management. It is virtually impossible to have a decision made sometimes at certain levels of the HSE. That is a key issue that I do not believe is being analysed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Would Mr. Moloney be able to give this committee information about management employment levels in recent years? How many people, for example, have been employed within management? I think Mr. Moloney gave a figure of 24,000. What proportion of that total was essentially management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the problems in terms of productivity I have with the HSE currently is that I know of hospitals where, for example, because of lack of funding or overcrowding in accident and emergency they shut down elective surgery for long periods. It is not that the theatre goes away or that it and the staff who work there do not have to be paid for. Most of the costs are still inherent within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that. All I am saying is that when we ask these questions we get fairly nebulous answers, with all due respect, similar to that answer. It astounds me that when we go into a hospital at this stage that most of the documents are in hard copy and they are shifted around the whole system. We do not have a proper ICT system. During Covid we had a major crisis because people did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. It is interesting that the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, said that the majority of last year's overspend was due to patients presenting for emergency treatment. Is the Minister right? Is it the fault of the patients who presented for emergency treatment that caused the overrun?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: This is my final question. It was reported in theDaily Mail recently that Mr. Moloney was involved in negotiations with Robert Watt. Some of the reports said that Mr. Moloney became very angry and that there was shouting going on and voices raised, with people being personally insulted, etc. What is the relationship between Mr. Moloney and Robert Watt in the Department? Is that report a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. If I can, there is just another point that I missed. How many people leave the HSE every year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: If there is going to be recruitment freeze, and I imagine that thousands of people are retiring every year, what we are talking about is a net decrease in numbers. Even if a recruitment freeze is not completely across the board and only certain elements within the HSE will be affected by it, will there be a net decrease in staff as a result of the budget Mr. Moloney has provided to the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not a net increase though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: How do we have a net increase if there is a recruitment embargo or freeze in an organisation that is going to shed about 5,000 staff this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: When will the pause cease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. Gabhaim buíochas le Mr. Moloney.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: North-South Interconnector (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 26. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has received any correspondence from rural community groups expressing concerns over the construction of the North-South Interconnector in Meath, Cavan and Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Properties (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will list all the empty or unused buildings owned by her Department; and if he will detail their locations. [49413/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what plans his Department has to reduce the risk of flooding nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49282/23]