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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (16 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 358. To ask the Minister for Health when the transport grant for disabled persons which ceased five years ago will be reinstated; the position regarding the health (transport support) Bill; when it will be finalised and implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17580/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts Data (16 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the details of each information and communications technology contract, excluding support and maintenance yearly contracts, with a total contract value of over €1 million since 2014; the number of these contracts that have gone fully live and are fully operational; the final costs of these contracts compared with the original tender price; the stage...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 369. To ask the Minister for Health if full care cover will be maintained through the HSE for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17666/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (16 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 401. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding allowing the FreeStyle Libre system under the long-term illness scheme for persons with type 1 diabetes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17731/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (16 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the falsified medicines directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17733/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. He is joined by Ms Niamh Donegan, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputies Pat Deering and David Cullinane. Are the minutes of 4 April 2019 agreed? Agreed. There are no matters arising. We shall proceed to correspondence. There are three...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is good. I saw an article in one of the Sunday newspapers about the 2018 financial statements. We will consider all those matters when they come before us in due course. The statements would not be audited by this stage. The next item is No.2083B, from Ms Jennifer Wiley, HEO, seafood policy and management division, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, providing an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. We will be looking at capital projects and if it falls easily under that heading when we come to discuss capital projects, then we will do that. We will also write back on this. Perhaps we were not specific enough. We asked for details on the comprehensive appraisal with regard to budgeted projects. In our letter we also asked for details on how the costs estimations could...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The cases were, effectively, withdrawn.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will write to the Revenue Commissioners. Obviously they will not identify any particular case but if large cases that were before the Tax Appeals Commission have since been closed then it saves work for the Tax Appeals Commission if it does not have to deal with them. That in its own right is good. In light of that we will ask the commission to give us an estimate of the value of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for clarification of that. Our concern here is that PwC was, on a prima faciecase, apparently involved in the decision-making process and was then the body called in to examine the cost escalation arising in part from that decision-making process. I do not understand it and the public does not understand it. We need immediate clarification of that matter today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It also affects the credibility of the people who commissioned PwC to do the report if the same people were aware that it was involved in the earlier decision. I use the word "if". It is not just PwC, it is the entire management of this project in the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am asking someone in the secretariat to contact the HSE via our usual point of contact to say we want a reply emailed to the committee by lunchtime and before the conclusion of our business today. I want that message to go to the HSE point of contact on the role of PwC and clarification of the matters I have just raised. Why was PwC commissioned to carry out the cost review process? I am...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: They mention Alan Moore, director of strategic capital development at Western Trust in Northern Ireland, who met members of the paediatric hospital board.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will ask also for a list of other advisers who were part of the document, "The New Children's Hospital Programme: Options for Going Forward". We want an emailed answer to that before the meeting is concluded today. The HSE knows the answer and can reply within an hour. There will be phone calls from lots of people seeking that answer and we want it in writing here today. We will check...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is good. The matter has come up here a few times here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy referring to protected disclosures notified to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We issued a notice a while ago and I will ask for it to be recirculated and updated if necessary. It is something we have to be careful about. We are not the final arbiter of these matters but we will provide an updated briefing note on that exact topic and discuss it then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will and we will circulate that note in the meantime. The next item is a list of statements and accounts received since the last meeting. The first is from the Medical Bureau of Road Safety and a clear audit opinion is provided. What is its link with the Road Safety Authority?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Which Department is it under?