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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Representatives from the HSE did appear before the committee regarding its annual accounts. Much information is still flowing from that engagement and we will have to have another meeting with that organisation regarding its financial position.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I would like the public to listen to this type of public service language. The question asked of the HSE was whether it provides loans. The reply stated the HSE does not provide loans to section 38 organisations. In some circumstances cash disbursements are accelerated beyond the agreed monthly profiles to ensure continuity of service. The HSE, therefore does not give loans but it does...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am reading from page 5. In 2018, the HSE gave cash to 27 organisations and the total provided was €73.6 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is going way up. These are not loans, they are just cash accelerations. It is fantastic. It is within our remit to write and seek details of the 27 agencies funded last year, the 25 funded the previous year and the nine the year before that, including how much money each organisation received in cash acceleration. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is the budget for the section 38 organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We do not have representatives from the HSE here today but we did have them here just before the summer recess. About €4 billion is paid out, according to the HSE's financial statements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: That includes some of the bigger voluntary hospitals. Let us be clear that is the biggest amount.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I forgot to put a bit into the question. We also want to know how many of these cash disbursement acceleration payments were outstanding at the end of each of the years concerned. Let us suppose that an organisation is going to get €120 million to deliver a service over a year. Let us say it is €10 million a year. It is also known that there is a problem and we want to know...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is interesting that, apart from everything the HSE is paying to the State Claims Agency, there are items not included that are covered by the State Claims Agency. We will ask the agency to give us a breakdown in respect of the principal organisations and what is covered and not covered. This all emerged at our earlier meeting. There are aspects that are dealt with directly by the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes: fire insurance, breakdown of equipment or damage to equipment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, so it might not come under the State Claims Agency. Let us say-----
- 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.