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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Will the witnesses please send in a detailed note on this to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Before I call Deputy Aylward, I remind those present that this session started at 2.30 p.m. If someone needs to step out for a break, I will not stop the meeting because we will lose our momentum. I hope that we will conclude by 5.30 p.m., but do not hold me to that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will aim to finish at 5.30 p.m. but if someone needs to step out, please do.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: I just want to concur with everything Deputy O'Connell has said. It is not that the witnesses have better work to do; it is other work to do.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: I asked the same question. There was a time when the top six or eight senior gardaí were before the committee on a regular basis. I asked, "Who is out catching criminals if you are in here every week?" I sympathise and I appreciate exactly what is being said.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: In a backhanded way, it is a compliment to all of the witnesses here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Secretary General of the Department of Health to answer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is a refund from the company for overpaying in the first place.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Aylward was right to highlight the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will conclude on that particular topic. Mr. Breslin can send us a note on the three schemes and how they work. I have some questions to put myself. The good news for Deputy Aylward on the cross-border initiative is that it is managed and run in Kilkenny.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Any query I ever had I had to get approval from Kilkenny.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely, the system is working well. I have a series of questions to put to the Department. Some of these issues relate to process and some relate specifically to the financial statements. I hope Mr. Mulvany is listening. I would like an update on an issue that has crossed our desk recently. I do not want the response now. It relates to the Harold's Cross hospice. There was a HSE...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Connaghan gets the point. We want a bit of clarity on that. Deputy Cullinane mentioned the consultants' contract and the enforcement issue which led to the private security people's actions. This came up at the committee in February. I subsequently asked the Minister for Health a parliamentary question about whose job it was to ensure the consultants comply with their contract. The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: How many consultants are covered by these arrangements? What are the ballpark numbers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Would 50 of those be a cause of concern? I would like to get a feel of the scale of the problem.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: On a hospital by hospital basis or a regional group basis?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. Has any action been taken on any of these yet?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: What does "in practice" mean?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. Will Mr. Woods tell us the list of vacant posts in the HSE at the moment? We are told in some cases there are more vacancies than people applying across the different categories. How many unfilled positions are out there? It is not specifically what is filled by agency. People would like to know, where there is approval for X number of consultants, X number of non-consultant...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is that available across the board?