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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome all the witnesses. Mr. Gloster, in his opening statement, mentioned the number of staff in August 2024 and said that the "growth is 23.3% since December 2019". Has the WRC change from a 39-hour week to a 37.5-hour week been part of the calibration?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I, too, picked up on the overtime payment and wonder how it happened. During a weekend night call-out in 2023, the employee was paid a rate of six hours' pay per patient for each of the four patients treated in a single period of 60 minutes. That same point was made by Deputy Kelly. It cost in excess of €2,800 for the call, which is an extraordinary amount. I can see the HSE's...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: This situation happens when the consultant is called in to a hospital, I presume, to see patients and there is nobody else to cover that. This person would have come in and seen four patients, and that is essentially how it happened.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The second item I want to deal with - I hope I will be able to come back in on a few other matters later - relates to the settlement of the employment case. This cropped up in the C and AG's report. It jumped out to us. I understand that there is a mediated situation and that this constrains what can be said. The settlement comprised €1.37 million for a loss of potential private...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: -----and it indicates that the power was all on one side here. I asked a question some time ago about the contractor that is building the national children's hospital and contracts over the past ten years for the same entity. There were seven of them, totalling €93 million, in different locations. What was the profile for looking at how they had worked out and whether they were on...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Gloster please do that and revert to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...the one area that is very out of control, from what I am hearing. It is repeatedly raised in the most tragic situations. We are talking about emergency situations, where you go with an emergency and are told to come back in 12 months. It is outrageous. I just wanted to highlight that as the kind of thing that really needs attention. Mr. Gloster talked about a staff turnover rate of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We are talking about 8% turnover and possibly 6%.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Is Mr. Gloster telling me that there are different numbers January, March and July? Is it generally 8% for the year?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...we compile a report. One of those recommendations was that the reports from internal audits be published on the executive's website. Will the HSE be doing that? Does it see the internal audits and the reports from audits relating to the more than 60% of other publicly funded health agencies?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: This is to do with the train traffic management system. Originally, the estimate was for €148 million. The range could now be somewhere between €175 million and €205 million, with the project estimated to come in at approximately €188 million, which is obviously a substantial difference. I do not doubt that the system is needed, but can we write to the NTA to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We are being told in this correspondence that the current status of the development is commercially sensitive and the focus of the project is being reviewed. Essentially, the project has stopped. We should write to the Irish Strategic Investment Fund to get a status update. This is a non-answer. I am not satisfied with a non-answer. We need a status update. Approximately €24...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae purports to speak for the people who went out and fought in 1916. My grandparents fought in 1916. My grandfather was interned. I do not think he would take the same view as the Deputy in respect of a lot of things.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The Deputy does not have to. I am just saying that a variety of people were involved and that it was in a different time and a different era. I do not believe the Deputy speaks for everyone who went out and fought in 1916. He should ponder that a little. When I started looking at this Bill and preparing for the debate this evening, I asked myself what was the point of doing so. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I raised this issue earlier this year with the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath. He accepted that I made a fair point and undertook to have the issue re-examined. It relates to a judgment of the European Court of Justice in 2022 relating to public access to the register of beneficial ownership of companies. As Minister for Finance, he signed a statutory instrument, SI...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to instances in which Departments failed to notify staff coming to the end of a career break of appropriate vacancies, extending their career breaks unnecessarily beyond five years and six years; and if he will clarify whether Departments can extend career breaks of staff beyond six years without...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cross-Border Co-operation (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she and-or her officials and the leadership of An Garda Síochána have had engagements with any of their equivalents in Northern Ireland in respect of a centralised intelligence sharing online platform; if any third party has been consulted on delivering same; the cost of same and the third party engaged on the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update in respect of the development of a national funding platform; if she has engaged external consultants in respect of same and the amount expended to date; if she will clarify the role of the Department in the project; if she will provide a schedule of the stakeholders she has engaged with on the project...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I thank our witnesses and the staff of the OPW and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform for their work in preparing for today's meeting. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for attending and assisting the committee. Is it agreed that the clerk will seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from the meeting?...