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- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: The witnesses can give us a note because a large portion of it was not paid during the course of the year. Also in the context of page 170, will the witnesses explain the statutory redundancy claim? Who was made redundant? To whom does the HSE make redundancy payments? The amount involved is €2.225 million. If the witnesses do not have the answer with them, they can send us a...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: I did not know the HSE was in that business. It is on page 170, note 17. I wish to look at page 167. The topic of long-term residential care arose. A total cost of €990 million mentioned. The witnesses will see that includes the private nursing home subventions. I see a note somewhere else that the HSE has directly employed home helps. Are those people employed by the HSE or by...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: If I look on page 9, I see a figure of 107,000 employees. Are home helps included in that figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: I see somewhere else in the report that there are approximately 3,000 home helps.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: Where is that note?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: That is exactly my point. It indicates that total HSE employees number 67,754, and then there are 39,000 section 38 employees. HSE and section 38 employees together number 107,085. Directly employed home helps are put at the bottom as if they are not HSE employees. I recently met a group of HSE home helps and they told me that they feel like second-class citizens because of the way they...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: It looks bad and it chimes with what they told me, namely, that they are not treated as proper employees.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: There was a time when they were not even paid the minimum wage when it was introduced.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: I remember a time when they were being paid €2 or €3 an hour.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: They feel there is a legacy issue. I know those who came on got the option of making a contribution to bring their pensions up to speed. If one was being paid a fraction of the minimum wage when it was introduced, one was in no position to do so. Even though they worked as home helps, they have only got pension contributions since then. Very few of them could afford to buy the extra...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: There is a history to it and that history is not good.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: I will ask the Department to explain why it is desirable for home helps to be listed outside the rest of the staffing figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: Even if they are included, they should not be just a footnote at the end of the total number of employees. On page 9, the total staff number is given as 107,000. They are excluded from the chart on page 9. They are not even included in the early part of the accounts. Mr. Mulvany understands what I am saying. I am sorry, I am covering a few points here. The reason I linked that to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: The witnesses need to say that because there is a certain impression out there. I hear much about agency staffing costs, in terms of hospitals and so on. I have heard this from the home helps. They say that they are being shoved aside and that agency staff are being brought in to do the home help. That does happen. One hears about the costs to hospitals. I am sure it is said at every...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Mulvany get the point? I am supporting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: I will return to page 173. I am sorry to go around the houses but I am seeking something on which I will compliment the HSE. The 2016 financial statements are clear, audited and submitted complete to the PAC within six months of the year end. No other organisation in the State is in that position. Organisations come here with financial statements that are a year or two out of date. As...
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: Once we get finished, it would be my hope that we would not have to see each other, at least, in this capacity-----
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: -----at the Committee of Public Accounts. If we have the HSE's 2016 accounts done, I would hope, come the autumn, we will have somebody else to deal with.
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017) Seán Fleming: We can cope without it. It does not mean the HSE will not be getting-----