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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: It is approximately a third of that figure, from our previous experience.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Has Deputy Murphy finished?

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 call Deputy Cassells.

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 was going to ask the question later. Can we suspend for five or ten minutes?

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 propose that we suspend for ten minutes as people may need a break. There is no need to break for lunch. We will not sit long after the break. Is a 15 minute break reasonable?

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 propose that we suspend until 2 o'clock. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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 next speaker is Deputy Shane Cassells.

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 are now on our second round. I call Deputy Connolly.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, through the Chair.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. O'Brien supply a written answer?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane is next.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Brien can now understand the value of members raising local issues at meetings. Even if Mr. O'Brien does not have an answer now, there is a value in raising these issues.

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 want to run through a few questions. My first is a very simple one. Is there anything in these figures for the National Treatment Purchase Fund or was that in operation? Was it in operation this year, in 2017?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: How low?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Could Mr. O'Brien say that again?

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 meant to be €15 million this year, I think.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: So it does not go through the HSE? It is a separate account then. Is that under the Department of Health?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay, that is fine.

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 we could have a note for the next stage to indicate where it stands that would be appreciated. I have a number of questions arising from the financial statements, and I will provide the page number and the accounts as I go along. On page 119, the expenditure by division in 2016 for acute hospitals was given as €5.651 billion. It is one of the startling figures in the financial...