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Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: I might have missed it. Did we deal with the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: Have we published it?

Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: Approximately two or three weeks ago we agreed that we wanted to hear from three section 38 organisations. One was St. Vincent's, another was the National Maternity Hospital and the last was St. Michael's House, which was at Deputy Dowds's suggestion. Roughly speaking, when do you envisage that happening?

Public Accounts Committee (6 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: I fully agree with Deputy McDonald. Whether the people were formally invited or not - they should have been - there is no way in hell they did not know they were required here. If they had read a daily newspaper, or if they were in the Houses at the time and looked at the monitors here, they would clearly have known what we were discussing. It is quite offensive to the committee that the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (4 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: 162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the rent allowance in an area (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10377/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (4 Mar 2014)

Simon Harris: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons being sent to the UK for mental health treatments which are not currently provided here; if he will provide a breakdown by year from 2010 to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10858/14]

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013. I commend the Minister and the Government for continuing on the road to reforming the health service by disestablishing the HSE Vote and bringing it back within the Department of Health. The removal of political responsibility for the health service was one of the biggest mistakes to be made in...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: Ms Kerins mentioned the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar, and his comment that Rehab was more akin to a semi-State body. I heard that radio interview, in which he also asked when was a charity not a charity, when did it become a commercial entity and that, if one reached a point where a certain proportion of one's work was commercial, it was better to be called...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: Is that review ongoing?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: When is it expected to be concluded?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: As Mr. O'Brien is not used to sitting on the sidelines and being on the periphery of these meetings, I will ask him a question to bring him in from the cold. We would not want him to think we had forgotten him. I heard his exchanges with my colleagues. Where, exactly, are we going with this review of the section 39 organisations? I understand where we are going with the section 38...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: In the view of the Department, the four recommendations in the report ceased to be relevant because a decision had been taken to wind down the scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: The Department then took a policy decision to wind down the scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: Shall I continue while Mr. Purcell is doing that?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: In her presentation, Ms Kerins made much of the good work done by Rehab and the National Learning Network, as did Ms Kelly and Ms Keane. Let us take that as read. We have all seen it and I have certainly seen it in my constituency. We have met with service users so let us decouple that issue as we have had to decouple the issue when St. Vincent's hospital and other organisations have been...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: I note Mr. Brian Kerr's statement in respect of senior managers. He has said that he would publish the salaries by 2015, which would mean the public could see them by 2016. Ms Kerins has indicated today that she would like that to happen this year. Can she outline how many senior managers we are talking about? Who falls into this bracket of senior manager?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: Ms Kerins has given the impression that there is a process under way or that Rehab is beginning to look at ways of publishing them. What does that process involve? Has Ms Kerins begun consultation with her senior colleagues or has the board begun consultation with senior managers?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: I am happy to hear that because my reaction when I read the Rehab Group's statement was "one step forward, two steps backwards". It is basically saying that it will tell us the chief executive's salary and then tell us what everyone else is earning in a couple of years time. I do not think that is in anybody's interest, including that of Ms Kerins's colleagues and the service users of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: I welcome that move forward in terms of the date. Does Rehab receive public funding from other governments or states?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Simon Harris: As we go about setting up a charity regulator, is there a requirement in other countries in which Rehab has operations to disclose salaries?