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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: My understanding is that from the point of view of social welfare or pensions, widows or the family receive the pension until six weeks after the death. Those in receipt of welfare must sign on within four weeks. Would it be worth looking at this to see how the margin could be narrowed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: I appreciate that, but in light of what has happened in the past, we must try to ensure it does not happen again. The medical card system has been centralised, but is there a new IT system in place to manage it? What IT system is used? I presume the database can be used for modelling to extract various real time information.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: What is the administrative cost of delivering medical cards? Has the cost increased or decreased in comparison to what it was? Now that the process is centralised, have the costs changed? Are more staff involved? I appreciate there has been an increase in the number of medical cards, but what does it cost to administer and manage the system?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: A percentage of the €2 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: Overall it has worked. There is better efficiency, greater fairness of eligibility and it has reduced cost.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: Good. In respect of administration and costs in the HSE there has been a 10% reduction in staff, an 8% increase in population and €3 billion has been taken out of the budget. What percentage of that 10% of staff were frontline as opposed to administration staff? Is that information available? If not, could the witnesses forward it to me?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: Thank you. There seems to be a big cost issue here in the area of prescription drugs, compared with other parts of Europe. I know that there was some work to be done in this area. How is that work progressing or is an update available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: On a personal note, I have a child with a long-term illness who requires a drug called Creon. When we go on holidays we have had to buy it because we forgot to bring it with us. The State provides the drug here. We paid, I think, €8 in Portugal. I have sometimes bought it here because things happen when one is moving around, and it cost €28, for the same quantity of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: Is that for the coming year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: Good. I welcome that. I have a question for Mr. Byrne whom I congratulate on his new position. I see that there is a request to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of a new financial management system within the HSE. What will it cost? What will be its benefit? Will there be real-time information? The public struggles to get accurate information on costings and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: What is the timescale?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: I welcome that. It is long overdue to judge by what we see in regard to accuracy and so on. On a separate issue, in my constituency there is an area where service providers whose budget was cut have to manage an increase in salary. That means in real terms they are cut by 3% or 4% because they have to comply with the Haddington Road or Croke Park agreements, or whatever the case may be....

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: I have already been in contact with the directorate in Cork and the manager of the department. The issue has been going back and forth since last September and we have not got any further.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
(14 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: Thank you, Chairman. I would appreciate that.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (19 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: 326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that persons on jobseeker's allowance are losing fuel allowance because they take up a place on a community employment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49111/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Not-for-Profit Sector: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: I apologise for being late but I was delayed coming from Cork. Having listened to others talk I have realised that the sector has great potential. Last Thursday I attended a conference held at the European Parliament Office on Molesworth Street organised by a European social enterprise group. I heard part of the conversation that took place. I wish to draw on the interesting analogy made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Not-for-Profit Sector: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: Was taxation changed in 2011?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Not-for-Profit Sector: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: That was done at the request of the charity sector which is something that I could never understand. In a past life I was a tax adviser. Part of my work was to help people who asked me to help them reduce their tax burden by suggesting a range of options.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Not-for-Profit Sector: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: Did the proposal include a financial cut-off point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Not-for-Profit Sector: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)

Áine Collins: How do we make it happen? How can we change that?

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