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Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am not asking Mr. Breslin to do that. I just want to know what happened and I want Mr. Breslin to ask him what happened.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I respect that. Mr. Breslin might also ask him if he informed anyone else that he would be providing the report in February. Mr. Breslin might also ask him what changed between 12 and 14 February because he obviously had flights booked and he was coming over to do something. That was my first question. My second question surrounds the capital plan. I thank Ms Anne O'Connor for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I would like Ms O'Connor to send all other correspondence-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: -----that she had internally in the HSE with all her fellow colleagues and the Department or both on putting that letter on the cost overruns together because it is an incredible letter and I compliment her for it.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: She is saying what we all know to be true. We all know that the real word that is not being used here is "profiling". The reason Mr. Reid said that there will be a three-year plan put together is that this needs to be politically profiled. Mr. Breslin and Mr. Reid both have one chance and one opportunity to be straight up with the public. There cannot be an overspend on the children's...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Reid will never hear anything different from me.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I agree.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I must interrupt Mr. Reid because time is limited. Ms O'Connor stated the additional impact on the national children's hospital in the period 2020 to 2022, inclusive, has made what was a very difficult situation almost impossible. I compliment her for writing that. She was telling the truth.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is impossible.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I turn to the minutiae. We are three and a half years into the national maternity strategy. The €5 million should have been committed last year or the previous year. Why has the €5 million for the new maternity hospital in Limerick not been committed? It is a small amount relative to the quantum we are discussing. Re-profiling is happening. No projects are being dropped or...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: The bottom line is that it does not stand up to scrutiny that the €5 million cannot be found for the maternity hospital in Limerick.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I refer to a national strategy signed off by the Government. It should be taken in the spirit in which it was meant. The Department must live with what is policy but the strategy is years behind schedule. If everything is fine, and the extra money has been found and so on, why has the project at St. Conlon's nursing home in Nenagh, which I represent, been pushed back? I hear that it has...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: The bottom line is that the overspend will have a dramatic impact on all capital planning. Everything will be re-profiled. The reason I asked a direct question earlier was not to try to catch anyone out but rather because the details will all become public in any event. We know they will. The question from a political point of view is when they will become public. Freedom of information...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is a national strategy, endorsed by the Government, and the Minister for Health speaks about it a great deal. As an Opposition spokesperson, I support it 100%. That €5 million cannot be found for the new maternity hospital exemplifies the problem, although I use it only as an example. It exemplifies that re-profiling is taking place. I believe I have proven my point.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: Other members were given a little more time but-----

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I will run through my other questions. Section 39 organisations recently appeared before the Joint Committee on Health. Why does the HSE have a practice of giving such organisations their funds, making them sign agreements that it knows relate to deficits and giving them loans for the rest of the year? Is there a danger of some such organisations trading recklessly because of the position...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Breslin has to answer the questions.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: Another member did not get that treatment.