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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: Has the Department of Health addressed the concerns around the growing overruns and the approach previously taken towards embedding those overruns in the base of future budgets? Has the Department moved away from that approach now that the task force has been established?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: Do the officials in the Department of public expenditure and reform agree with Mr. Watt’s summary of where the costs are coming from?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: Has Mr. Watt had any engagement with them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: I will ask the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform officials who are with us today to comment on the proactive steps the Department of Health is taking towards expenditure management.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: Is Mr. Coady’s Department satisfied with the HSE’s willingness to implement cost-cutting measures?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: Those were exceptional circumstances.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: I thank Mr. Coady. The Department of Health’s efforts to seek payments from over 800 people in respect of the mandatory hotel quarantine process resulted in a write-off of almost €1 million. Has the Department sought approval from the Department of public expenditure and reform for that write-off?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: What is the primary focus of the capital programme in terms of investment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: Can we focus specifically on additional bed capacity in hospitals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: Regarding acute hospitals, how many new beds came on stream in 2022, 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: What is the target for 2024?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: Regarding the hospitals the Department looks to prioritise, how is that selection process undertaken?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: One final question relates to the cost of building inflation. I had a specific case in my own constituency around Ballyhaunis primary care centre where we have a contractor offsite for the past two years. What is the process or protocol in place? Certainly, the people in Ballyhaunis and the surrounding areas of east Mayo have been left in limbo land, not knowing where this project is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: I wish to raise the current Fórsa union embargo that is in place around their administrative and management grade staff, their continued industrial action and the fact that they are not engaging in the political forum. When will this be resolved or come to a conclusion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: How concerned is Mr. Watt that the unions can hold the political forum to a halt in this regard? Has it impacted his duties within the Department of Health?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: In what way?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: But what will happen if this continues and there is no resolution next Wednesday?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: This has been going on since October. The drip-feed of information has been really concerning. We live in a democratic country. Access to information holding those to account is a primary function of our parliamentary activities. For employees of the HSE not to respond to basic-level queries through the parliamentary question forum is certainly really troubling to our function and to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Alan Dillon: When officials from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform appeared before the committee previously, we discussed their remit as the competent authority to sign off on the consents in relation to projects covered by the Arterial Drainage Act. They then outsourced that to external environmental consultants. The real difficulty lies with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Alan Dillon: The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. When these consultants return their report and analysis, it then takes time for the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to interpret the results and then get ministerial approval. The real frustration within the Oireachtas is that there is no accountability for...