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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (4 Mar 2014)

Seán Fleming: 361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the implications for agencies funded by his Department that fail to comply with consolidated public sector pay scales by continuing to make top-up payments to staff; when he expects this issue to be definitively resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10908/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (4 Mar 2014)

Seán Fleming: 384. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the implications for agencies funded by her Department that fail to comply with consolidated public sector pay scales by continuing to make top-up payments to staff; when she expects this issue to be definitively resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10910/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (4 Mar 2014)

Seán Fleming: 486. To ask the Minister for Health if persons over 70 years of age who are over 20 years in long-term residential care provided by the Health Service Executive in regional or community hospitals are entitled to a medical card where they are only in receipt of the State pension; if the income of their spouses, with whom they have not lived with for over 30 years since entering long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (4 Mar 2014)

Seán Fleming: 491. To ask the Minister for Health the implications for agencies funded by his Department that fail to comply with consolidated public sector pay scales by continuing to make top-up payments to staff; when he expects this issue to be definitively resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10917/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (4 Mar 2014)

Seán Fleming: 525. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the implications for agencies funded by his Department that fail to comply with consolidated public sector pay scales by continuing to make top-up payments to staff; when he expects this issue to be definitively resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10923/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I appreciate Ms Keane's correcting my comment. Although I said Rehab was almost a public entity, I did not suggest it was. Having looked at the figures, I will compliment it because everybody has been having a go at the salaries paid in the organisation. Based on the audited accounts for RehabCare in the year under review, staff costs, including PRSI and pensions, were €33.53...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I understand.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I understand that. I would like to put something to Mr. O'Brien and the HSE, which has been giving RehabCare 98% of its funding each year. As a member of the Committee of Public Accounts, I would have hoped that Mr. O'Brien, as the HSE's Accounting Officer, would have had a far greater handle on the activities of an organisation that gets 98% of its money from the HSE. However, it seems...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Is Mr. O'Brien in a position to say to us that the organisations he has just mentioned are in line with Government pay policy?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: It does not strictly apply to them. I would like to ask about the review the HSE is doing. Mr. O'Brien said earlier this morning that the HSE is dealing in the first instance with organisations that receive in excess of €5 million and hopes to have a report on those organisations by the end of March. How many such organisations are there? Can Mr. O'Brien list them? Is there a...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: A list of the organisations is available.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Almost 12 months have passed since the compilation of the internal audit report on the section 38 organisations. All the HSE can confirm is that just ten of the approximately 40 organisations or agencies are fully compliant. Most of them have made a business case at this stage, but just ten of them have been accepted by the HSE as being fully compliant. That happened after confirmation was...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: My final question relates to the NLN and to SOLAS. Approximately how much money goes to the NLN from SOLAS?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: What proportion of the network's total funding is that?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: SOLAS is carrying out a similar exercise to that being carried out by the HSE. As we have established, they are not public servants. What kind of check is SOLAS doing, given that two thirds of all payments in that organisation are funded by the State?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: How does that capitation fee compare with the capitation fees that SOLAS pays to other organisations? Is there a set fee for all organisations, or does it vary from organisation to organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Would SOLAS be able to send the committee a list of all the organisations that receive more than €1 million per annum?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Maybe SOLAS can give us the full list.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Maybe Mr. O'Brien would help us to clarify some issues. Does the HSE pay RehabCare in the order of €40 million? I do not need the exact figure, but is it of that order? Am I reasonably accurate?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Ms Kerins and her colleagues. I have the RehabCare accounts for 2012. The total income is €44 million, so it would appear that well in excess of 90% of RehabCare's income comes from the HSE. Am I right?