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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (31 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: 37. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends providing funding to support agricultural shows around the country in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27664/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Tidy Towns (31 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: 41. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends providing funding to support tidy towns groups to assist them with their projects and initiatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27665/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (31 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: 127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a detailed timeline and breakdown will be provided in respect of a funding application from his Department to the local authority in relation to a speed calming project (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27697/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (31 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if support will be given to those who started renovations on a derelict property prior to the new funding stream announcement due to be finalised in 2022 through the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (31 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: 516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if early childhood education sectors will see an increase to the capitation on the early childhood care and education scheme rate. [28049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (31 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: 735. To ask the Minister for Health when the routine dental care for children scheme for third, fourth and fifth class pupils at a school (details supplied) will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27886/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: I welcome our guests from the HSE and the Department of Health who are joining us this morning. As I have a short window, I will jump straight into it. I will focus first just on the redeployment of HSE nursing home staff. Back in December 2021, the Department of Health published the value for money review on nursing home care costs and its corresponding response to the recommendations....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: In terms of the public nursing homes, it states there is 2.5 times the level of nursing currently in the public nursing system. Ms O'Connor said that there are actually constraints around staffing numbers.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: Is that something that Ms O'Connor has looked at?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: On the staffing deficits in each CHO, can Ms O'Connor give us an indication of what they currently are?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: In terms of the review, audit, the examination of operations costs, staffing and rostering and the use of agency staff, has the Department of Health or the HSE conducted a review into the public nursing services?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: My question is whether the HSE has done that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: I apologise for interrupting. The HSE knows there is a problem and there is a value for money report that has been published by the HSE itself and it has accepted the recommendations. It is five months now since the publication of that report. Have we seen progress?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: We certainly have deficiencies in other elements of CHO staffing levels in where we actually need to rebalance within each CHO. On the implementation of the report, will a report be published? When does Mr. Mulvany envisage this work to be completed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: Can this committee get an update or an interim report on work to date? It is important that we actually follow this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: I want to move on to the second point I want to raise. On the HSE treasury management, the cash balance held by the HSE at the end of December 2020 was in the region of €812 million, which was an increase of €458 million on the 2019 balance of €354 million. The HSE states that this is equivalent to holding 13 days' cash for its normal day-to-day operations. I certainly...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: My next question was on the negative interest rate.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: What is the cash balance that will be transferred over for 2021? Do you have that figure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: The agreed figure is €608 million. This is €812 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Alan Dillon: In my second round of questioning I will focus on the HSE capital and estates division responsible for the delivery of projects included in the HSE capital plan. One of the issues is the delay in the delivery of projects. In 2020 there was €833 million to deliver what is a substantial annual capital programme. On current staffing, if we take for instance the CHO 2, the Galway...