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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Yes, I got that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Please be super clear about why the decision was made. Was it because the Department did not know how Covid was going to progress?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Can Mr. O'Grady give me a timeline on that?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I accept the principle; I am just asking about the accounting of it. I am not looking to do the Comptroller and Auditor General's job for him, but I am trying to understand when that will be rectified and what the oversight for those subheads is.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Does the Department envisage that eventually that subhead J2 will not really exist and those costs will be allocated to different subheads?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: That is not being done retrospectively. If the Committee of Public Accounts were to look at these numbers, it would still see €497 million under subhead J2.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: There is a breakdown of that single subhead and that is available.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: There were changes in how some of the accounting worked last year. Things like subheads K1 and K2 are standard from previous years. Subhead K1 still relates to the primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, and K2 is still long-term residential care.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Okay, so what are K1 and K2?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Colman for that. I want to move on to another area before I run out of time but before I do, I wanted to follow up on something from last year in the context of ICT. Throughout the year, we have been discussing the cyberattack and the impact on ICT. There is not any significant overspend in terms of updating technology or computer systems. Is that fair to say?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Not that I am looking for overspends but I am surprised-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: While Mr. Colman is doing that, he might get subheads K2, K3 and K5 as well, because it does not show what they are. That would be great. One of the things I am surprised about is that there is not an overspend on ICT or computer systems because. We have been hearing throughout the year that we are constantly looking for evidence-based data and disaggregated data. There are consistent...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: How far are we from the completion of that project?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Yes, we are. Before my time runs out, I want to move to capital delivery. As always, there have been some questions from Deputies on specific projects. One of the things I wanted to question is the general decision-making relating capital plans. The briefing provided states that when developing the annual capital plan, the number of projects competing for inclusion in the plan each year...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: They are not going through it, however. In terms of a final business case, a tender process and estimates of cost, we have seen several projects come through this committee that do not hit that bar. Is there a level of oversight there? When the Department gets a recommendation from the HSE, is there an audit of whether something as simple as planning permission is in place?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Does that apply to planning permissions?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I start, as others have, by thanking the staff. We seem to be rushing from crisis to crisis in this country and much of that has fallen on the witnesses' Department. I hope they will pass on our thanks to their staff. I will focus on the compensation issue but have a couple of quick-fire questions before that. What is the waiting time for PPS numbers?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: That is considerably longer than in previous years. I am talking pre-Covid and pre-crisis.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: We were at one stage looking at ten days. I have been in contact with the Department before because it has a knock-on effect for women trying to access certain types of healthcare, particularly reproductive healthcare. To wait four weeks is quite serious for some people.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Does the Department have a target?