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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) Seán Fleming: If we go back to a national framework, that will have to be inserted because obviously there are local arrangements at local level and I would not think anybody is really happy with that. There are probably old arrangements 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) Seán Fleming: I have one last point to make and I raised this topic with Mr. O'Brien previously. There is a write-off of bad debts in the accounts. I am not sure if the figure is €14 million or €15 million but why would the HSE be writing off money it is owed? The people who owe money include those who have not paid accident and emergency charges, among other things. How much of the debt...
- 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) Seán Fleming: What is the figure in these accounts for the write-offs? It is hard enough to get money in. When it is in the accounts and has to be written off as uncollectible, one must ask whether it should have been in the accounts in the first place or perhaps the issue is a lack of effort made to collect the debt. People will not get away with not paying their property tax. If An Post started...
- 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) Seán Fleming: The figure is €13.6 million for bad and doubtful debts. I ask the witnesses to outline the scenario there and while they are gathering the information, I wish to ask one final question on legal costs. There appears to be €80 million in the accounts for the State Claims Agency. This is an issue that we raise regularly. Everyone here is probably aware of the case in the courts...
- 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) Seán Fleming: The note in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on Vote 40 refers to 917 outstanding claims against the HSE with HSE insurers and a further 2,691 outstanding claims against the HSE with the State Claims Agency. I ask the witnesses to give us an estimate for the potential liability there. On the same page as that note are the details of the write-off, to which I will return presently.
- 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) Seán Fleming: What is it?
- 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) Seán Fleming: Can Mr. Woods repeat the figure?
- 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) Seán Fleming: Therefore, the HSE is estimating that to settle the claims already on hand will cost almost €1 billion. Is that correct?
- 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) Seán Fleming: That is a phenomenal cost. To go back to the adverse medical events, as Mr. O'Brien calls them, regularly there is denial of responsibility at local level. When does the HSE decide that an adverse medical event is such? The HSE can only learn from such events at the time of their occurrence, rather than four years later when there is a case before the courts. I would have thought that if...
- 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) Seán Fleming: I wish to raise a point on which I would like a detailed note to be provided, because the witnesses could not possibly have the information. Somebody contacted me in regard to the security contract for the Limerick group of hospitals, involving the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, the Mid-Western Regional Maternity Hospital and St. John's Hospital. I am sure the contract is for €1...
- 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) Seán Fleming: The HSE's published figures state the number of home care packages in 2011 was more than 15,000 but the number in the Revised Estimates published last week state 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) Seán Fleming: What Mr. O'Brien is saying is that some packages might be there for six months only.
- 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) Seán Fleming: What is the figure for 2013 compared to the actual figure quoted in the HSE's accounts of more than 15,000 packages? The Revised Estimates referred to home care packages and not whole-year equivalents.
- 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) Seán Fleming: Separate from the home care packages are the home help hours. In the same period, the HSE reduced the number of home help hours from 11.1 million in 2011 to 10.3 million in 2013, which is a 10% reduction. The elderly and people who are ill at home are bearing a disproportionate cut when one looks at the home care packages and at the home help hours. The number of people in receipt of home...
- 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) Seán Fleming: I refer to the national children's hospital. How much has the HSE paid out on this project to date? There is some reference to it in the accounts, which mention a €23.795 million cash advance to support the Adelaide and Meath Hospitals, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital as agreed with the Minister.
- 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) Seán Fleming: Which one is this?
- 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) Seán Fleming: How much has been paid out to date, or what is the cost incurred to date?
- 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) Seán Fleming: The new national children's hospital, which we all look forward to seeing.
- 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) Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Brien might break it down between the figure spent on the site at which we are no longer looking and costs already incurred in regard to the new proposal. I refer to the issue of patient transport. Coming from the midlands, I am conscious that a number of people must be transported from midland hospitals and other hospitals to Dublin. Some of the vehicles used are not...
- 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) Seán Fleming: No, we will get to that in a moment. I want to know the process. I am not interested in the reductions yet. The IMF, European Commission and the European Central Bank have adjudicated, if adjudication was needed, that we are not getting proper value for money. The process that has led us to the deals we are getting is not satisfactory from the taxpayer's point of view. Those bodies have...