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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: It does not represent a significant change then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: The summary of human resources states the headcount is 178 actual for year ended December but the accounts state it is 192. Is there a reason why these are different? In appendix 2 of its business plan for 2017, it sets out a human resources summary. This details the actual headcount for the year end of 2016 by the various different units. Its accounts also detail the actual headcount for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: I presume the accounts are per week as per P35.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: In terms of the summary, which is projected to go to 227 for December 2017, on what basis are these calculated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: The 178 should be an actual number which is in the business plan in theory. What way does HIQA calculate the employees it has referenced on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: I understand that but it is not clear what happened in 2016.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: I see the point Mr. Quinn is making but I am making a different point. When one is doing a business plan for the year ahead, it is based on a comparative of what happened in the previous year. In this case, this is 2016 and is mirrored in the accounts. In theory they should equal each other but they do not. Maybe they were calculated differently. Maybe it was based on actual people at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: Four individuals received a lump sum payment which is included in the pension figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: That is as opposed to it being an increase from last year. The wages, with an increase of six or so people in HIQA's staff, seem to have increased by a fair amount. Is it 6.5%? What is driving that increase? Did people get an increase during the year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: It would not be that. That would mean six people had €867,000 which would be a significant amount for the wage to be driven up by. Mr. Angland might address the point about subsistence. I know HIQA staff probably have much travelling to do but if it was worked out, the €805,000 for subsistence fees and travel etc. for members of staff, if one assumes that every member of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: Is HIQA happy with the geographic locations of its offices and that they are not driving up any of those costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: Might HIQA get savings during that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: On note 8 in the accounts, about professional fees, it says that "Other" accounts for €347,000. Is there more detail on that? What type of consultancy is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: Is that all tendered for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: There is an 11% increase in HIQA's budget for agency staff. Give us a background for why agency employment is increasing. Is that all tendered for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: Was it a shock to HIQA that it was not accounting for its VAT correctly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: Considering that HIQA spent close to €100,000 on accountancy and audit services, how did it come to HIQA's attention?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: So it was not anyone HIQA was paying for services? It was not HIQA's accountants or audit function but a member of its own permanent staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: That must be disappointing, considering how much HIQA pays in accountancy fees.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Peter Burke: HIQA obviously has assurances from the Revenue that everything else is okay then, does it?