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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We want each of those, in preparation for their meetings, while they may not have audited accounts, to have up-to-date financial information from their own management accounts so they can answer current questions. It has to be very clear that we will ask current questions. We will write to ETB Ireland and ask for a copy of its most recent financial statements so we have them in our talk...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are still on the work programme. There is the matter of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, and Nursing Homes Ireland, NHI. I ask the Vice Chairman to take the Chair since I have to go out for ten minutes. I will resume when I come back.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane has indicated his wish to speak. We will give a maximum of an hour to this matter so we can begin with five-minute slots.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The other speakers will follow the Deputy's line.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Could we have a final response to that question?

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Would Mr. O'Brien be satisfied if we wrote directly to Deloitte to request a copy of the draft?

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: And he, as the client, will consent to it being issued.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: If the draft is Deloitte's property, whose property is the final report?

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: So the HSE owns the final report while Deloitte owns the draft.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are moving on.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I wish to confirm formally that the draft report is the property of Deloitte, along with its working papers, and that Mr. Tony O'Brien, as director general or chief executive, has no objection to Deloitte passing its property on to us, if it is satisfied to do so.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: As was done before.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Questions and answers through the Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Through the Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Put the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Accounting Officer is the Secretary General of the Department of Health.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Brien should answer.

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will ask one question on that point before calling on Deputy Murphy. Mr. O'Brien stated in his final summary that he remains of the view that the evidence in this report shows that the service provider was treated fairly in comparison with other service providers in the period under review. Did Deloitte examine the funding to other service providers?

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I have seen that Deloitte's brief was to examine the funding for this particular organisation. It was not commissioned to examine the funding of other organisations. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Deloitte Report on Cost of Care in Grace Case (26 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Deloitte would not have been able to make a comparison as to whether the organisation was treated fairly or unfairly in respect of other organisations, because they were not asked to examine the funding of other organisations. Mr. O'Brien, however, has come to the conclusion that the provider was treated fairly in comparison with other similar service providers. Deloitte, however, did not...