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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: 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?
- 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 that breakdown for Dublin mid-Leinster and Dublin north-east?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The figure for the south is €44.7 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: What is the figure for the west?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Out of all the regions for which Mr. Woods has given me the information, the south's deficit has decreased while those of all the other regions have increased.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: The south region has had quite a significant decrease in its deficit from €53 million to €44.7 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: This is the other big figure that is here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I wanted to get those figures so I could understand the most up-to-date components of it. Digging behind each of those figures, page 20 of the report includes information on primary care reimbursements, which we touched upon. One of the points made in respect of the increased demand for services, and I believe Mr. O'Brien touched on this point as well, is that a big chunk of the increase in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: It does say that the number of items reimbursed increased by 2.4 million items across the year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That comes to the nub of my questioning. When the HSE is getting its figures ready for the year, I suppose it knows that if it issues a certain number of new medical cards, that will generate a certain amount of expenditure. Why has there been such an increase in the number of items on existing medical cards that has consequently driven the cost the HSE is managing at the moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That is not an unexpected variable though. At the start of the year, the HSE knows that people will be getting older and looking for more, that some people will, unfortunately, pass away, and that new people will be coming in. It is a stable enough universe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: I welcome the witnesses. I want to begin by directing a comment to Mr. McLoughlin regarding the comments made earlier to him by Deputy Fleming. I completely and utterly disassociate myself from them. Mr. McLoughlin is in here to do a job and to respond to questions from members and he should not be subject to that kind of language. I want to put that on record. Despite the start the...
- 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 a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: That is a HSE deficit but it is not money that has been paid to the consultants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)
Paschal Donohoe: Could the witness explain how that works? Why this is a separate amount of money?