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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is not the pay, which is even more expensive. In the figures I have seen, bringing in agency staff works out as being as much as 30% more expensive. This is happening in many hospitals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: Regarding the non-technical aspects, for example, cloth cleaning and painting, I suggest that we notify CHI of our concerns. I will come to the agency matter now. I ran a highlighter through it on my document as well. The Deputy is correct. I suggest that we write to the Minister and: note staffing as one example of the issues before us and that the arrangement fee, as the Comptroller...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: We can cover those issues and notify the Minister of our concerns about them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: We can express our serious concerns, given that the hospital will open within the next 12 to 18 months and this problem could escalate into a much more serious situation. Is that agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy wish to ask that question of the State Claims Agency?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: I imagine that, given how this happened in the hangar and elsewhere on site, there will be a health and safety element.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: Obviously, this situation is on the Deputy’s patch. The claims relate to matters that may have arisen from health and safety issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Regarding the Prison Service, €56 million is estimated as being the outstanding liability on claims. That includes almost €13 million in respect of the Portlaoise campus alone. There is a detailed breakdown of it, which shows that there are 22 staff member claims and 69 prisoner claims. There are 11 regarding property. From time to time, the Irish Prison Service...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is that agreed? Agreed. It is written in the opening that the DPIA makes no adverse findings at all related to the legal basis for processing of personal data in respect of a public service card. The issue Deputy Murphy is raising arises in the next paragraph. Okay, that is agreed. I will move on to No. R2109 from Mr. Liam Sloyan, CEO of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, on 5...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is on the table on page 3.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes, the page before that one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes, that one. Table 1.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: I refer to the second to the last figure - patients using NTPF-funded additional beds.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: The HSE does not have any direct control over it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know that. I know the Deputy will be.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: How many hundred thousand has the Deputy now for one pool?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: We have a great public pool in Portlaoise, which I use.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: Outdoor?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: To help the Deputy with this-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Brian Stanley: On page 2-----