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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: There are two other things I want to deal with. I will just mention one of them because I will not get to my second question if I get into a dialogue. On GP services, people contact me every day because they cannot get on a GP list. If they get a lung infection, a chest infection or something like that, they have to go to the accident and emergency department. We now hear that routinely....

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Mulvany might tell us again what the-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I will go back and look at that specifically. On the national children's hospital, how much of the 2023 capital allocation has been drawn down at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Additional funding will not be required.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: We were looking at the amount that had been allocated, that is, €1.3 billion for the build and additional funds for the fit-out and children's health aspect. The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has to go through a number of additional claims totalling somewhere in the region of €500 million or more. There is a very sizeable number of additional claims. Does Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I completely understand that we need to minimise the exposure for the State. I know each of the claims is being gone through and that many of them are being disputed. However, when there is €500 million worth of claims, some will succeed. I am not talking about the HSE undermining the role of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board in dealing with those claims. Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Mulvany is giving me a lot of waffle. Some of those claims will succeed. Does he anticipate that more money will be required to complete the build and fit-out before this hospital opens?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Mulvany expects that to happen.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It will not be enough.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: May I make one comment about the Department? What we have seen from the witnesses today is happening all of the time. This committee needs to have a discussion about what we expect from witnesses with regard to detail. What I have just heard may be a reply but it is not an answer. There is a difference between the two. We need to have a discussion about this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I have a couple of questions. The Department of Health and the Comptroller and Auditor General did a special report on the procurement of ventilators by the HSE. That has been with the Department since December. Why has the report from the Department not been laid before the House at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Can Department officials come back to us with a definite on that? Are we depending on the section 39 organisations that are in a specific area to deliver the health services? They may not deliver absolutely the required services.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It is almost as if the system is designed based on charitable ideas rather than a right to services.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: There is no doubt there is a postcode lottery and it can be very different in different parts of the country.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: When does Mr. Mulvany think that standardisation will happen? For example, CHO areas will be different and sometimes, some areas that are rapidly and continuously growing are always playing catch up. Will there be a people-centred approach to how resources are distributed based on population?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I can only rely on what I am told when I meet the CHO, and it is only one CHO I have been meeting. One is constantly being told that we are playing catch up.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: In fact, sometimes when resources are allocated in an approach where, for example, there is a dietician for everyone in the audience, if you like, when there is a CHO area that is twice the size of some other CHO areas, it is not equality in terms of such delivery. I want to raise one issue of the kind of pressures the section 39 organisations are under in delivering services regarding...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Where do they get the money from, if it is not from the HSE?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I know that.