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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: The hardest part is to switch the funding from the acute sector to primary and community care. On the phasing in of universal access to care, do the witnesses have any general advice? They were talking about it appearing to be Government policy to extend free GP care across the population. That is only one element of it. Entitlement to other health professionals, home help, physiotherapy...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Is the way to go to implement the chronic disease management programmes or should it be done on an age cohort basis?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for giving us their time to come in. It has been very worthwhile.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: That is fine. We will then circulate it. The witnesses also mentioned that the ESRI is doing work at the moment. We will request that from the ESRI. This has been a very worthwhile session and we appreciate the witnesses' time. I ask the members to hold on while we conduct some private business before we adjourn.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I and other Members of the House have raised on a number of occasions in the past few weeks the agreement put in place by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, with the waste companies to defer the introduction of the pay-by-weight scheme. It is clear that one of the companies, Greyhound, is in defiance of that agreement in terms of its requiring people to opt out of the new pay-by-weight scheme....

Nice Attacks: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: On behalf of the Social Democrats I voice our revulsion at, and condemnation of, the horrific and mindless attack in Nice last Thursday evening. The horror of the attack is all the more poignant in view of the day on which it took place, France's national holiday. We can all visualise what it must have been like for those families out celebrating a very important national day and families...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Pathology Service (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, with regard to an infrastructural development being carried out with the support of her Department (details supplied), she will outline the staffing arrangements for this facility; if any recruitment will take place in this regard; if this recruitment process will be open to members of the public to apply; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 416. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will intervene in a case to ensure that a person (details supplied) is not required to make a new carer's allowance application for a relation. [22209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 494. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his views on correspondence from a group (details supplied) that made a recent submission to his Department; the actions he will take to address the issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22757/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: EU Directives (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 541. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 148 of 30 June 2016, 1681 of 22 September 2015 and 87 of 24 March 2015, and the Wildlife Acts 1976 to 2012 and the European Communities Birds Directive, her plans to actively engage with Dublin City Council to curtail this issue, including the issue of permits as outlined in previous replies;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 663. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the drafting of a new national cancer strategy for the period 2016 to 2025; if there is a proposed publication date for the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22600/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Court (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 889. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 548 and 549 of 28 June 2016, if she is satisfied that the reply provided by the court does not violate Article 3 of Regulation No. 1182/71 of the EU Council (1971) which determines the rules applicable to periods, dates and time limits, by which EU member states are legally bound (details...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Court (19 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 890. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of appeals submitted to the Labour Court each year for the past five years; the number of appeals each year for the past five years that were not heard by the Labour Court because they were considered to be one day out of time; and the number of employee appeals each year for the past five years that were not heard by the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the delegation, although on that point I will express some concern about its scale. There are at least 16 senior officers present. That is a matter of concern for us as a committee in terms of ensuring value for money and so on. There is a problem with that. Apart from so much senior officers' time being taken up, there are other issues with lines of accountability. If there...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Accountability for any of this rests with the Secretary General of the Department of Health. I am curious about what Mr. O'Brien's legal position is in terms of spending oversight. My understanding is that the head of the HSE is accountable to this committee, yet is not the Accounting Officer in law. Will Mr. Dempsey clarify the situation?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: It is an unorthodox arrangement.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We need to consider why the Accounting Officer is not before us to account for this.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Generally, in situations where everyone is responsible, no one is responsible. That is a concern for the committee. Mr. McCarthy set out at the beginning of the meeting the standard of good governance, accounting, reporting and auditing that should obtain in any organisation. I am not sure that the HSE meets that standard. I did not get that sense from the presentation. I wish to ask...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: It should be a matter of extreme concern to this committee that, as someone who is responsible for a spend of more than €13 billion in the HSE, with €3.6 billion going to sections 38 and 39 agencies, Mr. O'Brien stated that the HSE's audit function and the allocation of resources to oversight were "probably significantly" underfunded. That is not an acceptable response to...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about the factual response. Mr. O'Brien, as the accountable person to this committee, is admitting that the HSE's arrangements for oversight and audit are "probably significantly" under-resourced. How can we, as the Committee of Public Accounts representing the taxpayer, have confidence that public money is being spent properly?