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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will watch how it implements the recommendations. There is another item of correspondence from Mr. Robert Watt which relates to what was learned from the project.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: There is no reference to this in the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: The report does not give the full picture. It is not accurate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: The committee will agree to write back expressing those views. We will ask the secretariat to show Deputy Connolly a draft of the letter before it goes out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is happy for the secretariat to go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: Grand, that is good. As I say, there is a follow-up item of correspondence from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to post-project reviews coming up in a moment. It follows on from us getting on to the Department about its role in post-project reviews and the learning process. We will come to that in a moment. It is a related item of correspondence. We will note...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: People may consider this boring but it is the role of the Committee of Public Accounts. We are actually really on the job when we are doing this type of work and compiling information in respect of every single reference to non-compliant procurement in 2019. It is an issue to which we will return, time permitting. We are doing an important job and we will continue to do it diligently. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: From what document is the Deputy reading?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: I see. This is the attachment to the Deputy's item. We will note No. 2585C, which comes from the Deputy herself. We are discussing the attachment to that document in conjunction with the letter from the HSE. We will note and publish the Deputy's letter as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: The HSE says that this system "is fully operational in HSE East since June 2019", which is only a few months ago. We received this correspondence in November. We are not going to publish the Deputy's correspondence because it includes the name of an individual.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: Was it received in the last month or two? Is it possible to check?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is recent enough. I do not have the date in front of me. What would the Deputy like the committee to do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: The HSE says it went live in its eastern region this summer. We can write to the HSE to ask what issues arose as part of this roll-out, what lessons were learned, whether the problems have been solved, and what the timetable for the further roll-out is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: We want to know if it is fine-tuned. That is fine. The HSE did say "There were specific concerns raised in relation to payments of overtime, public holidays and premium pay" and that one of these required a systems reconfiguration. It accepts one of those issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: Something here intrigues me. The HSE says that "The introduction of the new system has had a particular impact on the 400 Time Returning Officers". I do not know whether this is a full-time post or just part of someone's job. If everyone is directly inputting their own information, what are the 400 time returning officers doing now? The HSE also says "In addition, staff in the payroll and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is everybody inputting his or her own time now directly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: What do the 400 staff who were inputting up to now do?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: This is in addition to staff in the payroll and staff records department. They are different staff. There are time-returning officers and next sentence mentions the staff in the payroll and staff records department spending less time on manual data entry and increased time on data validation. I would have thought something like this would lead to some efficiencies and release staff hours...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not get it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is stated that to minimise the reoccurrence of the issues, additional training was provided to a targeted group of time-returning officers. We want them to spell out who are the time-returning officers and the staff in the payroll and staff records department. We want a more detailed view. This correspondence will come back to us when we get that information. The next correspondence...