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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...

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

Seán Fleming: That was one of the reasons for the delay.

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

Seán Fleming: That is fine.

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

Seán Fleming: Then there is a breakdown of a figure for primary care reimbursement services. That is broken down by prescription charges, manufacturers’ rebate and pharmacy claims. There is a breakdown of the drugs payment scheme, the long-term illness scheme. It is all outlined on page 19 and is useful information for people to have. Then we asked for a note on the whole-time equivalent staff...

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

Seán Fleming: Advances.

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

Seán Fleming: The point is well noted. We will have that on our work programme. We will note and publish that. No. 2345B is correspondence from Mr. Peter Finnegan, Secretary General of the Oireachtas Commission, on various queries put to him at the meeting of 11 July. It gives a breakdown of expenditure on ICT in 2018 and information on the costs of disseminating output from the Houses of the...

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

Seán Fleming: That is noted.

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

Seán Fleming: To individuals.

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

Seán Fleming: The Department of Finance is managing that case.

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

Seán Fleming: I suspect the Deputy will be able to put that question to the Data Protection Commissioner when she appears before us shortly. It could be a data protection issue.