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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I am not going to pick a fight with the Deputy but I am advised that because the Committee of Public Accounts is dealing with this issue that, under Standing Orders, neither we nor the Minister are allowed to discuss it until the Committee of Public Accounts has concluded its investigation. I cannot ask the Minister to answer that question because, under Standing Orders, the Committee of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, Deputy-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Under Standing Orders, I am advised that we cannot discuss this matter.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Under Standing Orders, the Deputy cannot discuss that matter.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, Deputy, I cannot allow that question.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We will move on to subheads B11 and C1.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: It has not. Deputy Ó Caoláin is here a long time and will be aware of that.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin. We are moving on to subhead B1. Any comment on subhead B1? Any comment on subhead B2?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: As Deputy Ó Caoláin will be aware, we are not discussing FÁS here. This is the Department of Health and the HSE.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Ó Caoláin mentioned SOLAS and FÁS. We are not dealing with that in this committee.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin. Does the Minister want to reply to that?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Has the Minister anything in terms of subhead B2 in terms of the €11 million that Deputy Ó Caoláin raised?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: In terms of what Deputy Ó Caoláin stated?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Ó Caoláin made the point.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Ó Caoláin made the point.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Go raibh maith agat.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Okay. Any comment on subhead B3?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps Deputy Kelleher's point was that COPE Foundation, for example, has in its service level agreement taken a reduction and yet the issue of pay, that proportion of the funding allocated, cannot be touched because the Haddington Road agreement protected certain funding. My argument to the Minister has always been that organisations, such as COPE Foundation, which have lived by the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not expect the Minister to be familiar with that. The point Deputy Kelleher makes, with which I agree, is that the service delivery should be conditional on the organisations living up to their side of the bargain in terms of living within the means they are given by the HSE.