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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Does the witness not approve of that top-up? Does that not mean the CRC is not complying?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Does it matter in the view of the HSE if the CRC is doing that? What Deputy Dowds said was very interesting and personal. He said that he had heard of the CRC cutting back on a number of things, with children unable to get treatment, disabled people unable to get swimming lessons and so forth. Has the HSE any role, given that it is funding the CRC, in ensuring that type of activity does...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: There is a group called the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic. Is the witness aware of that group?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Okay. Has the witness ever looked at its accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Those accounts are readily available. That company received €2 million in lottery funds in 2011, which is the latest accounts I have, and €1.9 million in 2010. On top of that, the accounts state that a surplus of €14 million is carried forward at the end of 2011. I presume those accounts are correct because they are audited by Ernst & Young. That does not mean...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Would it be acceptable to the witness?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: I can give these figures to the witness.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: I might be mistaken, but does the witness understand the point I am making?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Yes. It is a mechanism for funding the CRC, and there is €14 million in it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Correct.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Would it be the responsibility of the witness to ask those questions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: The HSE funds it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Funding (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: I do not accept the Minister’s interpretation of his paper but I will look it up again when I have time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Funding (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: I can understand why he has interpreted it in that way at this stage of his career. The Minister inherited quangos with State-appointed boards and directors from the previous Government. To be charitable, the Minister promised a great deal of reform of the boards. That has not happened. The boards are large. The average number of directors on the boards of which the Minister is in charge...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Funding (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: The Minister makes the law and he promised reform.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Funding (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: I have not had time but I will.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Funding (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total sum of the grants given by quangos in his Department for job creation purposes since he came into office; the number of jobs that have been totally or partially created by these grant giving quangos; the cost per job across all those agencies; his estimate of the value of the quangos individually in his Department; if he has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Funding (27 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would like to say "Well done" on yesterday's CSO figures. While they are a photograph of a point in time, they are an improvement and that should be acknowledged. The reason I asked for these data is I am doubtful about the role played by these State agencies and it is difficult to say whether the assistance they give creates jobs. We know they exist...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies Data (26 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: 131. To ask the Taoiseach the number of quangos operating under the aegis of his Department; the total number of directors sitting on their boards; the aggregate fees incurred by the State in payng the remuneration of directors of these quangos; the number of quangos that have been created since the formation of the Government; the number that have been disbanded over this period; the...