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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It often happens that people emerge from the courts and the HSE issues an apology. There is supposed to be an open disclosure approach. Obviously the State Claims Agency is the one that deals with it. On the financial side, where are the settlements referenced when they are made? I presume they are referenced in the budget of the Department of Health. In terms of the last ten years, can...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Can the officials isolate them and give them to us-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: -----along with the learnings and what is being done to ensure these things do not happen again?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: There was a newspaper article that was at odds with the response we got. This piece of work was about a homicide review. At present, the Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures for crime statistics are produced under reservation. Policing plans are constructed based on a range of different things, including crime statistics. However, if those statistics are under reservation that is a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is No. 1251.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is that we seek a comment from the Policing Authority because we are getting an assurance in this response and it does not match the experience in that the statistics are produced by the CSO under reservation. There were people who refused to sign off on the report on the grounds that it contained unreliable data and they say they were subsequently excluded from compiling a report on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, for some additional information. We should ask GSOC if any of the protected disclosures that were made were against GSOC itself. It would be useful to have a clarification regarding those that were assessed by an independent or external consultant and, if so, the cost for doing that. Sometimes it is useful and important that things are done externally. It is just to get that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, it is useful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We have nothing to measure this against in terms of international comparisons. What would it take to have that type of international comparison? It is difficult to know what one is measuring it against.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, that is fine. It is just to have something to measure it against.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I cannot remember.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have to say I get angry when I think of this because it is a complete waste of public money. We had a system that was working well and was being well used. What is coming back from the CSO is explicit about the benefit. The CSO is also saying that Benefacts data addressed many of the coverage issues that the CSO had in respect of the not-for-profit sector. Essentially, it had positive...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: There is one particular aspect. We could have the Department of Health and the HSE in every week because there are so many streams of things that we would really like to get at. There is one particular paragraph in the CSO 's correspondence: "Use of the Benefacts database has helped the CSO to establish the universe of such organisations [We are aware that section 38 and section 39...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but are there other things that we can do. Certainly we should do that but I am very reluctant to let this lie.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I would be inclined to go beyond the Secretary General. It was completely frustrating in here last week. I recall something said in the Dáil some years ago by former Deputy Joe Higgins. It was "like trying to play handball against a haystack". That is what it felt like. One felt like screaming.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I am not satisfied to go back to the Secretary General because, to be honest, I believe that we were wasting our time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It would mean having to duplicate the spending. It would involve setting up a whole new system.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I would favour going, in the first instance, to the Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: They do not refer to Amárach, which would just be a consultation rather than anything else. They do not refer to that. It is referred to in another piece of correspondence. I believe it is in the CSO correspondence.