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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)

Paschal Donohoe: I also acknowledge the significant progress on deficit performance, which is markedly different from what we have heard in other meetings. Progress has been made in that regard as well. We had a discussion on the allocation of patients to nursing homes and the prioritisation decision made, which has been outlined. How long will that decision be maintained?

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)

Paschal Donohoe: The witness is anticipating that the original decision made for a three-week window will probably be enough.

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)

Paschal Donohoe: My colleague, Deputy Dowds, touched on promotional activity and there has been a discussion about below the counter and above the counter pricing. I have no experience of this in the pharmaceutical industry but I do have significant experience of the practice in the supply of goods to retailers. If we are not tracking it at our end in how the State purchases goods, does it not mean that the...

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)

Paschal Donohoe: It is true in most cases anyway. The manufacturer will supply the goods to the distributor. If there is promotional activity going on to influence the price at which the distributor buys the goods, the margin the distributor is receiving off the price at which the State is buying the goods is significantly enhanced. That is the case if the goods are being received at a promotional or...

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)

Paschal Donohoe: Should we not be doing more to track 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)

Paschal Donohoe: I will leave it at that, although I may come in again at the end of the meeting. I thank Mr. O'Brien for his analysis.

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)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and his colleagues. I will be brief as I am due to speak next in the Dáil on a Bill. I would like to focus on a number of areas but will commence by returning to the issue of the payment of consultants and the delays in this regard. In Mr. O'Brien's view, what is the reason for the delay in consultants signing off on forms?

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)

Paschal Donohoe: I agree that it is unlikely there is any badness or malice involved. However, this does influence when they are paid. If a consultant knows that signing a particular document will influence when he or she will be paid, it will be a reasonably influential factor in how he or she allocates his or her time. There is a clear pattern as many of the consultants, until the progress demonstrated...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (24 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstance behind the decision to remove the entitlement to resource teaching hours in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19417/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (24 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 205. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if legislation will be introduced to allow residents the right to light leylandii hedges impacting their own properties;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19412/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: VFM Report on Reserve Defence Force: Discussion with Minister for Defence (23 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their contribution. To continue the theme regarding the causes and limitations of austerity, if financial markets will not lend to a country, or will only lend at a rate which is too expensive for the country, what are the choices open to it? We need to distinguish between countries which have access to financial markets and countries which do not....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: VFM Report on Reserve Defence Force: Discussion with Minister for Defence (23 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Thank you Dr. Ahearne. I now turn to colleagues' questions and Senator Reilly was the first to signal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Economic and Monetary Union: Discussion (23 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I welcome everyone. The Chairman will be joining us soon. The subject of today's meeting is completing economic and monetary union.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: VFM Report on Reserve Defence Force: Discussion with Minister for Defence (23 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: The committee has held a number of meetings on this and intends to publish a report on it. I am delighted to welcome two of the foremost economists in Ireland, Dr. Alan Ahearne and Professor John McHale, who will be familiar to all the members. I thank them for attending this meeting to give us their views on this topic. Before inviting our guests to speak I must issue the privilege...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Application (23 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 is being charged universal social charge on their pension income and income from a home help job that they have despite that income not being assured from week to week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18255/13]

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: It is a very small number.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: The Comptroller and Auditor General made the point that the four he looked at ranged from 13 months to nearly three years. From what Mr. Kissane has told me, that is something the authority has acted on and it has a new-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Has the authority a process in place for dealing with that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: That then drove up the number of unsuccessful applications.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011 (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: On the issue regarding advances of funding on which Mr. Kissane may have touched in answer to my earlier question, an observation from the report is that in three of the 25 cases examined, 90% of the grant allocation had been paid out on the signing of the contract resulting in a risk exposure for the authority and, indirectly, for the State. At present, how does the authority deal with how...