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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (10 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of GoSafe speed camera vehicles at present. [43458/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (10 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 413. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount expended on an annual basis for foster care service providers since the year commencing 2013 to date in 2023; if he will provide a breakdown paid to agencies and to private individuals over that time period; and the number of active and inactive foster carers and agencies as of 1 October 2023. [43514/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (10 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the funding of on-campus student accommodation that was announced for Maynooth University in November 2022 (details supplied). [43713/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I want to touch very briefly on the resumed industrial action on foot of the announcement that there is an embargo on particular grades. What does Mr. Gloster think the impact is likely to be and what plans has he got to deal with that? Not covering the industrial action relates to not covering, for example, vacant posts. Embargoes can be a very blunt instrument. One could have a number...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I am specifically asking about impact. It is an industrial relations issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Okay, I want to go on to a number of other questions. I was looking at Mr. Gloster's briefing document, and the high earners by specialty. Radiology marginally increased to become the highest discipline, from 24 to 25. Psychiatry has gone from ten to 18, which is a very sizeable jump. Surgery has gone from eight to 17. Is that to do with really plugging gaps where there is a recruitment...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. I want to touch on the way funding is allocated. It is probably more to do with Mr. Walsh on the community services side, and Mr. Mulvany. Say there is an increase in the various community healthcare organisation, CHO, areas, how is that distributed? Say there is a 5% increase - I am just picking a figure off the top of my head - how is that distributed? Is it equally across the board?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: How is that assessed?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: No, I am talking about among the CHO areas. What analysis is done in each of the nine CHO areas? Is there a 5% increase across the board? Are there differences, depending on demographic changes or whatever? How is that assessed?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I will tell Mr. Walsh what I am trying to get at. We have a postcode lottery for services. It is very unequal in some services between one part of the country and another. I had a look at the HSE website in advance of the witnesses coming here, and I looked at the populations of each of the CHO areas, which are vastly different. When I looked at the numbers, it was the 2011 census that...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Are we going to see less of this postcode lottery?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to the vacant properties. What are retained assets? Can Mr. Mulvany give me a description of that? Some are under review. What is the evaluation process for properties that are under review, and are there plans to bring any of the vacant units back into use? Mr. Mulvany might also deal with the kind of costs there are. If there are vacant units, are they being heated?...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: We have been told that already. What is being spent on heating, for example?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Are these on a risk register, or would they feature?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Are there aspects that feature on the risk register with regard to the HSE's property portfolio?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: We have a big problem with dereliction in this country. A lot of the HSE's properties are likely to be in village or town centres. The idea that a State agency would be contributing to that dereliction is becoming an even bigger issue. Will the HSE come back to us with that? We will need some detailed information on the condition of those buildings as much as anything else.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. Finally, the HSE carried a deficit from 2005 when it took over from the health boards. In reality, the shape of the boards was still there. How does the accumulated deficit now feature in the HSE's management system?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: That has increased.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: How would that have increased? Will Mr. Mulvany describe how that increased?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: How can the HSE ever get rid of the accumulated deficit?