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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: The Committee of Public Accounts, I suspect, will take some credit for getting-----
- 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 would be unreal talking about mandatory disclosure, if one had not already put the regulations in 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: Separate.
- 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: Yes, under the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act. The presence of Mr. Breslin today is good and timely and it has helped. It was not the only reason but it helped to get it over the line. We will now have questions on the financial statements which is the reason the witnesses are here. I refer to Mr. Connaghan's opening statement. There was a deficit of €139 million being carried...
- 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: Do not say "in effect". I am looking for a black and white answer. The reason I ask is that somebody told me when the Estimate was being discussed in the Dáil that this issue came up and there was a reference to not having the audited accounts for 2017 to finalise that figure. Is there discretion on this as to whether it is the first charge? The legislation seems to be quite clear....
- 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 other words, the service plan for 2018 would not have taken the first charge into account because the HSE did not have its audited accounts done when it was doing its service plan for 2018.
- 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 is the figure for the first charge in the service plan agreed for 2018?
- 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. Mulvany is starting to wobble. On the one hand, it is a first charge but now it is subject to discussion, seven months into the year. Is the first charge not negotiable? Why is that figure not in the HSE's service plan? Mr. Mulvany said there was no figure in the service plan for the first charge. I thought this was meant to be a clear issue.
- 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: Yes, I can see it.
- 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: This is from the previous year.
- 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 other words, the HSE is down €140 million before it starts-----
- 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 for this year. Am I right? That figure is not in the service plan.
- 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 are now saying, potentially, that before we got to 1 January, we were €140 million short in our service plan.
- 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 know but it has to be found now out of the Department grant for 2018, which the witness did not have a figure for when the service plan was agreed.
- 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: A plan was agreed in the knowledge that there was a big figure there which the HSE did not know but which would be worked out during the course of the year. We are at this stage in the year and the HSE is down €140 million from the first charge that was not specifically mentioned in the service plan. The HSE is down €200 million for the first two months of the year, which was...
- 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: Give me some assurance this is being run properly. The service is receiving €15 billion. It was said this is one of the highest OECD countries in terms of total spending on health, between public and private sectors, and the eighth highest on public spend. That would leave most people saying it is a management issue as much as a finance issue.
- 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 know it is late in the day but that is probably the most significant statement we have heard, that is, there are already significant issues facing the current budget. I know Mr. Breslin mentioned Supplementary Estimates, which is a phrase we do not use any more. I do not believe there can be Supplementary Estimates, unless savings can be found somewhere else. No, the Oireachtas still has...
- 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: According to one of the opening statements, the Department had a surplus of €2 million and did not have a Supplementary Estimate in the year.
- 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: That is fine. I will flag an issue related to the current position. Page 122 shows that mental health accounts for 5.5% of the total budget of the Health Service Executive. The HSE cannot be happy with that. Of a total budget of €15.229 billion, mental health accounts for €841 million or 5.5%. Is Mr. Connaghan satisfied that only 5.5% of the budget should be spent on...
- 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 maybe 8%.