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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: What does DML stand for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: In all cases, therefore, the deficit has increased as it went into the extra month.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That gives the deficit as it stood then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The deficit figure of €500 million, which is a huge figure we are all very concerned about and which Deputy McDonald referred to earlier, has been in the public domain for some time now. Even in the report I have here, there is reference to the fact that the HSE expected, if things went unchecked, there would be a deficit of roughly that level later in the year. Am I correct in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: When did that figure come into the public domain?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: There has been clarity that if other things did not change and if measures were not put in place, a deficit of that level would be reached.
- 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?