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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)

Catherine Murphy: Have we received any replies regarding the commitments made this morning on the protocol and the national screening service? Do we have replies?

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)

Catherine Murphy: I would appreciate it if Mr. Connaghan could do that. We could do with having that today.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Does the figure of 70 relate to paper-based requests? I specifically asked about the slides that are held by the laboratories and what the contract says. The HSE created two different scenarios - where it was complying with the paper records or records in digital format that are held by the HSE and the ones that are held by the laboratories. I specifically asked about the laboratories as...

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)

Catherine Murphy: Is there any delay in providing them?

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)

Catherine Murphy: We are hearing one thing in here and the polar opposite through the media from those who are directly impacted or their representatives. We must be able to reconcile those. I would appreciate any information Mr. Connaghan can give us today, including that protocol. Can he give us an assurance that this is not an impediment or is not causing a delay to the people concerned?

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)

Catherine Murphy: I would appreciate it if Mr. Connaghan could send us that information.

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)

Catherine Murphy: I will move on to the €73 million in bad debts and the private hospital maintenance charge. Is this included as a bad debt when in fact, there can be something legally dubious about the demands if people are put under pressure? Is there any issue relating to this because it seems that this amount is growing every year? I believe this is what the former Minister for Health, Senator...

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)

Catherine Murphy: This mainly regards accident and emergency departments.

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)

Catherine Murphy: There is no differentiation when a person arrives in an ambulance. What happens after that is the issue. I gave an example on a previous occasion when the HSE was before the committee of a female patient who was pestered for 24 hours to the point where a medic had to be called for a blood pressure issue because of the pressure put on her to sign a form she did not wish to sign. Is Mr....

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)

Catherine Murphy: I have very limited time and wish to close out this issue and ask other questions. The experience relayed to me by several people is that they were very aggressively pursued in regard to the fee while in hospital. I have given an example of that. Do such situations still occur?

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)

Catherine Murphy: I have already done so but I may provide more examples. The issue of delays in speech and language and occupational therapy has been raised. One must plan services and hire staff based on existing needs. A child must undergo an assessment of needs to determine what supports he or she requires. I am aware that it is increasingly the case that people are told there is a three month...

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)

Catherine Murphy: A person does not get a second chance at childhood.

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)

Catherine Murphy: A child awaiting an assessment of needs may miss windows of opportunity and learning that would affect his or her life chances and so 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)

Catherine Murphy: Some of these issues are the remit of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health rather than the Committee of Public Accounts. As regards waiting lists and the projection of needs, some people are unable to even get onto waiting lists, which is a further impediment. I ask Mr. Connaghan to arrange for the committee to be sent a note detailing where the problems are in that regard. He stated...

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)

Catherine Murphy: When will the €2.2 billion be inside the framework?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Is Mr. Mulvany aware of the value of savings made by bringing the contracts within the framework? What potential savings could be made by bringing the total spend of €2.2. billion within the framework?

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)

Catherine Murphy: May I ask one last question on the parliamentary questions? In 2017, some 11,000 parliamentary questions were tabled. In the years from 2012 onwards it ranged between 7,000 and 8,000, but there was a major spike in 2017. Members do not table parliamentary questions for fun but because they see failures or people come through the door with an issue. It strikes me that there was something...

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)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. Mulvany.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Particularly in response to the specific query on 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)

Catherine Murphy: Could I have a copy of that protocol?