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- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Mr. O'Brien made an interesting point in his submission earlier. He said that even if everything had gone according to plan-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: -----there still would have been a deficit level to which the service would have had to respond. This is a point we touched on in our June hearings, the issue of the lack of integration still in respect of cost accounting within the HSE. Why is it that even when there was a huge amount of money in the economy there were still deficit crises occurring in our health service? What is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: On that point, is the witness saying that the combination of those two factors, the current eligibility for the different schemes that are available and the natural change in society that takes place each year, would have generated a deficit of more than €200 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That is because the eligibility criteria are set by the Oireachtas and the Department of Health.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Therefore, where the eligibility criteria do not change and society goes through the normal type of change, it generates the financial pressure the witness has mentioned.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I will conclude on one point, the consultant contract negotiations. I realise Mr. O'Brien is constrained in what he can say. However, can he tell us where they stand at present?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Does Mr. O'Brien have a figure in mind as to what type of savings could be made in this calendar year by the implementation of the new contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: What gain does Mr. O'Brien think could accrue in a full year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I will restate that to make sure I understand it completely. Due to the fact that the consultants have not processed the paperwork, they have not been paid for this private work and neither have the hospitals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I understand. On another more basic question, why would someone decide not to sign the paperwork to get €74 million worth of income when it is not one individual? Maybe it is and Mr. O'Brien might explain that to us if it is the case. Why would people forfeit that level of income?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That €74 million is due to the hospitals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Does Mr. Woods have an understanding of the figure due to the consultants - the separate figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: To return to my second question, what are the factors behind the non-claiming of a figure of that magnitude?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: To crystallise that point and I understand that Mr. O'Brien is only speculating, when an invoice is generated, that is the point at which the tax liability is caused. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I will address my broader question to Mr. Woods because he is the one with the laptop over there and is tapping away furiously at it. If for no other reason, I am drawn to him. Page five of the very helpful report furnished to us from July 2012 describes the financial metrics for different parts of the HSE as it stood at July 2011. It broke down the deficit as it stood then by different...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Could he share them with us by region - by Dublin, the midlands, the north east and south west and the two hospital groups?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I am looking at the actual year to the approved allocation and then the actual year to date and budget year to date. There is a variance year to date. Could Mr. Woods give us the variance figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Is the figure €350 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: In this case the deficit, which stood at €351 million, has increased to €404 million?