Results 4,261-4,280 of 34,616 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Just to help everybody, we will ask the HSE to send us a note clarifying precisely what is not included in State Claims Agency cover because we will want to incorporate it into our periodic report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The next item in the correspondence was private contributions paid to nursing homes. The total contributions levied for collection in 2018 was €61 million. This is connected with the fair deal scheme, under which people have to make a contribution. I think we understand that. We raised the replacement of direct home help by agency staff here. The HSE puts the number of healthcare...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Its own staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is not the issue at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Let it provide cover through agency staff if it has-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask about its arrangements. I thank the Deputy. I raised the matter verbally with the HSE representatives the other day. That is why this reply is here. However, as the summer evolved - it was early July when we met them - it found more and more cases. We need a breakdown by each of the nine regions around the country. It might have just happened in my region; maybe it did not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Budget.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: For the agency workers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The HSE's own staff would be covered by its own-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Will we take this issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: From a financial point of view, we could ask for a breakdown of the cost in each of the CHO regions of the home care support services provided by healthcare support staff and the cost where they are provided by agencies. We will see if there is a disparity in the figures. Is the ratio 50:50 in one area and 90:10 in another? We will get details of the numbers of hours and costs as between...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. The people concerned know what they are paying their own staff, whether by hour, week or year. The easiest way to manage the pay of home helps pay would be by hour, but we can work out what the figure of 1,000 hours comes to in weeks. The Department of Health is the biggest spending Department. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection also has a big budget, but this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We can.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: During the course of the summer we received all of the correspondence received up to the end of July. We received batch 1 in the first week of August. We will have to defer consideration of the items we received in the past couple of weeks until next week. We will clear the correspondence received in the first half of the summer. Only a couple of items remains. No. 2235 is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It will not be involved in that way. I take it the Deputy is referring to the case involving the Data Protection Commissioner. The State Claims Agency will only be involved in claims made against the State.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: In the Department's Vote.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: They are included in the Vote of the Chief State Solicitor's office. We have had its representatives before us. The State Claims Agency is only involved in cases involving clinical imdemnity and public liability. All other things, fires, buildings, flooding, etc-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Even in the cases where the SCA does the work, they have to reimburse the agency, as the HSE does every year. The State in taking the Apple case to Europe, for example, will not be covered by the agency. That will come out of the Vote of the Department of Finance. Is the Deputy with me? It is not a public liability case. For example, where the Department of Employment Affairs and Social...