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Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It does not say that.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It does not say any of this.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Now I know what they are doing. The reason for conflating overpayment and payment procured through fraud or misrepresentation is to use the latter to justify a brutally insensitive method of recovering money. The Minister for State says such people will receive written notification but there is nothing here to indicate that. The HSE and its various agencies have much to learn and are often...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Come on.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: No.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Where did the Government get the advice that a bureaucrat can decide that something has been done through fraud? There is no adjudication by any court on this issue, it is not being suggested that an individual will be brought to court in order retrieve the money. What is being said is that some bureaucrat or whiz kid executive of a new agency will decide that the agency has been defrauded....

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am taking the executive at its word.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I can imagine State agencies making mistakes.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: They would put their hands out looking for money to be returned.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The HSE is the most impenetrable body ever created in this State.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was not going to press it, but I may do so now. We do not know how much this will cost. We do not know what the cap was nor do we know the identity of the company and we have been given spurious reasons for this. As Senator Leyden said very well, there is a myth that the HSE is not involved in any schemes to pay out money, but it is involved in schemes. The Minister of State tells me that...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State does not know that.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I wish to ask one question on the amendment. Did the Government instruct the HSE to put performance indicators into the contract against which the efficiency of the contracting party would be measured?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The answer obviously is that it did not.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Nothing has been learnt.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I understand that everybody who is due to receive a repayment will have been in a public hospital. That represents the overwhelming bulk of those concerned. Therefore, their records will be held by the HSE. An outside body will now have to trawl through those records. It will either ask the HSE for this information, in which case employees of the HSE will have to dig through their records and...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: To pay the HSE.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The House should read section 17 which states: (1) Where it comes to the knowledge of the scheme administrator that— (a) all or part of the payment of a prescribed repayment to a person has been procured through fraud or misrepresentation, or (b) there has been an overpayment of a prescribed repayment to, or in respect of, a person, then the scheme administrator shall make a report thereon...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, subsection (2), line 19, after "enactment" to insert "or under any other scheme for the assessment". Unlike some of the other amendments, which I suppose were a little contentious, this amendment and amendments Nos. 6 and 7 represent a simple attempt on my part to clarify something. Amendment No. 5 relates to any assessment of people's means by the State,...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: My concerns are legitimate. Do I understand correctly that the moneys given to people who receive State payments which are the subject of a means test which is not based on an enactment will be reduced because they receive repayments under this legislation? It seems the Minister of State is saying they want to leave a possibility in place for people who receive payments which are not covered....