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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I accept that but I respectfully disagree. The first letter refers to the letter we wrote seeking information on the number of jobs supported by SBCI. The number of jobs the loans supported is exactly what I wanted. SBCI gave us the total number of employees in the organisations in which particular projects were supported. In fact, it specifically did not answer the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Supported by it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: It did not. Its heading refers to the breakdown of employment-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is a breakdown on employment supported. However, the support for some of the companies-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: No. It is just giving us the employment numbers in the organisations it has had dealings with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: They seemed very vague on how they do it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will have the letter we wrote to the organisation circulated. We did ask for the jobs it supported, not the number in the companies. We were given an answer. It is illuminating to read SBCI's opening sentence. I was quite specific in what I was looking for when we sent the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is a useful discussion. We will not note or publish the information at this point. We will hold it over and include the organisation on our work programme. We will come back to the correspondence at that stage. The next item of correspondence is No. 2343B, from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, providing information requested by the committee on the number of active...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will contact the State Claims Agency and-or the Department directly. We had this before with claims against hospitals and paediatric units. The agency does not want to identify a particular region because it might be unfair to the region in question if there happened to be a large number of claims in a certain year. If the information on the public record is overanalysed, it could give...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: I want to be fair to the State Claims Agency in respect of this matter because there are two sides to every story.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Or children.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Assaults.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is very difficult. There have been many problems managing that. We will ask and see if we can get the breakdown of that between claims by staff or claims by children in Oberstown. We will see what information emerges. The agency will know not to compromise its own defence when supplying information. It probably thinks I have overanalysed what it gave us already and might regret it....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is also the case with inpatient and day cases. It is high in both categories. Given that I heard the Deputy mention that topic yesterday, I thought I would follow through on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: They are shaded in blue. The number of consultants included in this particular survey – they only do so many every quarter – was 3,026. The figures along the bottom are 451 and then 491 under day cases. Let people study the document. We will note and publish it in any event. If members want to study it in detail, they can use the printed version. There are too many...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: It has been given by hospital groups. That is why I said University of Limerick hospital group is the worst.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is University of Limerick hospital group.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Jim Breslin sent us that information. We will write back for a breakdown and ask him what action the Department is taking on foot of that. We will just deal specifically with the University of Limerick hospital group. It is the outlier in the chart given. We will ask him to know what action it has taken and what additional measures it is putting in place to prevent it reoccurring.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. The correspondence also contains information on the cost of the Scally inquiry and details of the consultant contract settlement to include an overview of the 1997 consultant contracts. We know there was a settlement with consultants recently. However, some older employees were not part of that. There is a detailed note. I raised that matter. We will note and publish the...