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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) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: It has collapsed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: How much?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: But that is going on for years. In my time as a Deputy, over the past 12 years, the service has deteriorated. It has fallen off a cliff. The service has collapsed. Here we are in a rich country with another big budget passed for health. I heard no one in the Government or in the Opposition arguing about that. No one has said to the Minister for Health or to the Minister for Finance that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Could Mr. Mulvany give me the figures for Laois and Offaly as well, so that I can see what is happening?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: The public ask me these questions and I cannot answer them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I am not trying to finish on a bad note, but it is an issue I cannot let go of.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. I thank the witnesses from the Department, the National Ambulance Service and HSE senior management for joining us here today and for preparing for the meeting. I thank the support staff for their work and supplying the documentation. From the Comptroller and Auditor General's office, I thank Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Crean for attending and their support staff for assisting the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: The business before the committee this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. We will then go into private session to report on our engagement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The first item is minutes from the meeting dated 29 September 2022, which have been circulated to members....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Regarding the OPW contract that is now considerably more expensive than when it was signed, what is this about?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is it four or five times greater?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Can Mr. McCarthy remember what that is for?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is it a framework agreement?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Documentation has been provided that may be of some help. Would other members like to comment on these financial statements and accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: It was incurred because the wind farm has not ceased operation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Who owns the wind farm?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I think it is. I thank Mr. McCarthy. Can we agree and note the financial statements and accounts? Agreed. As usual, they will be published as part of the minutes. As previously agreed, items of correspondence not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions taken by the committee in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay, I will follow up on that. The word "unusual" was in my comment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy might have noticed that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will follow up on the information requested by Deputy Carthy. Next is correspondence is No. R1478, dated 22 September 2022, from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Health, providing the information requested by the committee regarding the National Maternity Hospital. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. It is Is that agreed?...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I know they outlined that the multistorey carpark extension project and the pharmacy was a single contract of €30.128 million, and that both are now fully operational on site. Is that correct?