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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: 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%.

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 have a simple question on the Department of Health grant €14.156 billion for 2017, which is shown in chart 6 on page 123. I want Mr. Breslin to send the committee a note tying that figure to the Department's appropriation account because it is not possible for us to do so. I doubt the Comptroller and Auditor General could drag that figure back to the appropriation account. Perhaps...

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 what I am asking. We have the 2016 appropriation accounts and 2017 financial statement. I am asking Mr. Breslin to do this for 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: It would be useful for the committee to see the document. According to the second last paragraph on page 149 of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Health Service Executive is not in a position to quantify the value of its expenditure on goods and services where the procedures employed do not comply with procurement guidelines. We have had a discussion on this. What...

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 Mr. Mulvany explain that? The HSE has a framework but does not know if it is being complied with. Is that what he is saying?

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 two years, committee members, whoever they are at that stage, will be able to check out the veracity of that and to whether it all happens. On page 157, it is unusual that the letter of determination from the Minister on how much could be spent in 2017 was received on 29 December 2017. Did I read that correctly? I do not know how any other organisation could wait until the last working...

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: If everybody could open page 167, please. There has already been public comment on this matter. Without identifying the person who received €980,000 in 2017, will the witnesses talk me through this? The person is on pay of €220,000, which means some €760,000 was for back pay and arrears. This covers a period since 2010, which means the person was owed approximately...

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: Did the matter go before the Labour Relations Commission? Who adjudicated on 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: That individual is a very mild person to have waited for so long.

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 saying the HSE did not have to pay the person any interest or compensation for the late payment. More power to the person, although the figure does appear to be extraordinary. Page 168 refers to the treatment abroad scheme, which Deputy Aylward raised. Where is the cross-border initiative in these figures? I do not see it. How much did that initiative cost 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: Treatment abroad is a different scheme.

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 mentioned three schemes, namely, the treatment abroad scheme, the cross-border initiative and the E111. I ask Mr. Mulvany to send the committee a note providing a breakdown of expenditure on the three schemes.