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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: I support the Chairman's remarks on the need for an investigation of this case to be conducted by a body outside the remit of the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: In regard to delayed discharges from hospitals. I see from the information we have been given that it is expected that delayed discharges will increase by 24% this year on the 2013 figures. Can somebody explain the reason for that increase? Are the new moves in regard to the fair deal scheme having a bearing on the numbers?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Given that initiative, why does Mr. O'Brien expect the number of delayed discharges to increase so much this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: How does that impact on the finances of hospitals? Would there be a saving if people were discharged from hospitals earlier?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Is Mr. O'Brien satisfied that sufficient step-down facilities are coming on stream in 2015?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Is the HSE largely relying on the private sector to provide those step-downs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: I wish to raise another procurement issue. There was some discussion on it earlier so I shall try not go over that again. There is still a considerable issue in terms of proper procurement processes and 36% was the figure that the Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned in his report. To what extent does the HSE have influence over procurement in terms of sections 38 and 39 organisations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Has all of that come together?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: To what extent does that bring about savings?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: Last night, I received an allegation of failure to go through procurement procedures for a significant section 38 organisation. I do not want to name it here because I have not had a chance to check the details. If I give the director general the details would he mind checking it out and reporting back to me on the situation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013 (23 Apr 2015) Robert Dowds: I thank the director general.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: I thank Mr. Duffy and his colleagues for attending. My question relates to the question posed by Deputy Ciarán Cannon and, to an extent, that posed by Deputy McNamara. In my constituency, a number of SMEs are in difficulty and I received complaints from them, to differing degrees, about how they are treated by banks. In one case that relates to AIB, the small business concerned is a...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: When Sinn Féin were killing people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: I apologise for the fact this meeting is clashing with Question Time with the Minister for Health in the Dáil. It is frustrating as it means some members cannot be here. I welcome the witnesses, including Professor Mary McCarron, the leader of the research team for the intellectual disability supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, TILDA, Ms Máire O'Dwyer, research...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: I thank Professor McCarron. Would Ms Burke or Ms O'Dwyer like to make a contribution before I open the discussion to the floor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: I will let Professor McCarron reply and then I will bring in Senator van Turnhout and Deputy Neville.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: I congratulate you on the quality of your work. With regard to employment, there is a provision whereby businesses are encouraged to take on a certain percentage of people with disabilities. That might not necessarily be intellectual disability. Have you a sense of the extent of that in practice? You mentioned that 7% are in employment, according to the study. I presume you would be of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: The thrust of my question related to encouraging employers to give serious consideration to taking on people with disabilities. Before I was elected to this House, I was a member of South Dublin County Council, which had a very active policy of employing a proportion of people with disability - not necessarily intellectual disability, but a variety of different disabilities. I think there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: Will we conclude there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)
Robert Dowds: I welcome the Chairman of the committee back to the meeting. I thank our witnesses for their most interesting presentation.