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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)

David Cullinane: Does it cost more? Do the witnesses have the figures in overall terms or per whole-time equivalent post? How much more in percentage terms does it cost either in acute settings or outside of them to hire an agency worker over the course of a 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)

David Cullinane: What is that figure on a yearly basis, on average?

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)

David Cullinane: In that case, if the HSE was hiring more staff directly it could save 20%.

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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Woods said he would be aware of the potential savings if we were to use staff who were directly employed rather than agency staff, an average of 20%. Where does that figure come from?

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)

David Cullinane: Yes.

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)

David Cullinane: Who does that? That is my point. Can that be supplied to the committee? Have reports for either the director general or Mr. Woods been done on this-----

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)

David Cullinane: Can that be provided to us?

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)

David Cullinane: I understand that and I look forward to getting the data share. My final point on this is that notwithstanding that, it strikes me as odd that agencies can provide staff for many of these services but we cannot recruit those staff into the public sector. If there is a premium and an increased cost, how is it that agencies can recruit these staff yet hospitals or non-acute settings cannot?...

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)

David Cullinane: I will have to stop Mr. Connaghan there. To be fair, I am not interested in overall figures, and that is not the question I asked.

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)

David Cullinane: I ask Mr. Connaghan to bear with me for one second. I do not want to be rude in any way. My questions were very specific. Notwithstanding whatever money was allocated, we now do not have the staff. Money might have been allocated, but three psychiatrists have left. They have walked out on his organisation. They have left. They are gone. They have said they have had enough. They have...

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)

David Cullinane: That is great, but I ask Mr. Connaghan to bear with me for a second. What is extraordinary about his response is that while every effort is being made by the HSE to get replacements, which is fine, and I have a briefing note in which all that is covered, it should not have come to this. We had three psychiatrists providing a service and they walked out, and what we are hearing is that more...

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)

David Cullinane: I will come back to this in my second round because I want to be fair to the other-----

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)

David Cullinane: I will ask one last question and then come back in the second round on some of those issues. I accept Mr. Connaghan is new to the post. I must say he is very forthright and very upfront in answering questions, and I commend him on that. I gave him prior notice that I would raise this issue because it is very important and will have wider national implications. I spoke to one of those...

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)

David Cullinane: I will stay to enable us to get through this.

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)

David Cullinane: Deputy Kelly will have to be present for the vote.

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)

David Cullinane: With regard to hospital consultants, some of the issues were raised by Teachta MacSharry. There was a court challenge by consultants relating to pay. Will the witnesses remind us what that was about, what the outcome was and what the liability is for the State as a consequence of that action by consultants? Will Mr. Breslin or Mr. Connaghan take 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)

David Cullinane: How many consultants took cases?

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)

David Cullinane: What was the outcome of 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)

David Cullinane: How much would that cost?

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)

David Cullinane: How much would that cost?