Results 61-80 of 1,295 for "value for money review"

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Mar 2022)

Mary Butler: ...04 billion this year, any changes must be delivered carefully and with due consideration to their impact and any unexpected consequences. The department is also taking forward the 9 recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, which was published in December 2021. The purpose of the VFM Review was to identify, quantify and analyse the reasons for any cost...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (22 Mar 2022)

Mary Butler: ...04 billion this year, any changes must be delivered carefully and with due consideration to their impact and any unexpected consequences. The department is also taking forward the 9 recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, which was published in December 2021. The purpose of the VFM Review was to identify, quantify and analyse the reasons for any cost...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (22 Mar 2022)

Mary Butler: ...contribution is the same; the price of care only affects levels of state funding and has no direct impact on the resident. In December 2021, the Department published the independently-chaired Value For Money review on nursing home costs, which reviewed the variance in costs between public and private nursing homes. The review made 9 recommendations to address this issue, all of which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Mar 2022)

Mary Butler: ...;1.04 billion this year, any changes must be delivered carefully and with due consideration to their impact and any unexpected consequences. The department is also taking forward the 9 recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, which was published in December 2021. The purpose of the VFM Review was to identify, quantify and analyse the reasons for any...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Feb 2022)

Mary Butler: ...for everyone and that people are cared for in the most appropriate settings. Last year the Department published the NTPF Review of the Pricing System for Private Nursing Homes, as well as the Value for Money Review of nursing home care costs. Significant work is underway to deliver the recommendations of both reviews. This will involve significant research, policy analysis and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (15 Feb 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 353 to 355, inclusive, together. My Department's role in relation to homelessness involves the provision of a national framework of policy, legislation and funding to underpin the role of housing authorities in addressing homelessness at a local level. Statutory responsibility in relation to the provision of homeless services rests with individual housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Feb 2022)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 291 and 292 together. Audit and oversight of local government in Ireland is the responsibility of two organisations; the Local Government Audit Service (LGAS) and the National Oversight and Audit Commission (NOAC).The LGAS carries out an independent, external audit of each local authority, each year. It currently has a staff of 35, or 32.6 full time...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...from the Department of Health to examine the 2020 appropriation account, Vote 38 - Health. The Department has also been advised that the committee might wish to examine matters relating to the value for money review of the nursing home support scheme, or fair deal scheme, as well as analysis undertaken by the national paediatric hospital development board on the new children's hospital....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...two outstanding reports. The first concerns a detailed review of the progress on the national children's hospital. That was submitted to the Department earlier this year. The second concerns the value for money review of the nursing homes support scheme. Both are long overdue. Last week, we agreed to write to the Department to request further information on these reports and that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Dec 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...completion of this critical project. Our invitation to the Department of Health to our meeting on 16 December, which is two weeks from today, includes this matter as an agenda item. Also on the agenda for that meeting is the value for money review of the nursing homes support scheme, or fair deal scheme. As detailed in our January report on our examination of the Comptroller and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I completely understand that. I want to move on because we will all have limited time. Was a value-for-money review carried out in respect of the Ryder Cup in 2006? There is a commitment to host the Rider Cup in 2027. Could I have a "Yes" or "No" answer on whether there was a value-for-money review?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: I wanted to ask whether we have written to the Department of Health regarding the value for money review that is referenced in this correspondence. The Department will be before us in the coming weeks and I suggest we write to request a briefing on the Nursing Homes Ireland correspondence and the national children's hospital, advising that we will raise those issues on the day.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...examination of the Comptroller and Auditor General's Special Report 110 - Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Fair Deal Scheme), which was published in January. One of the recommendations was that the value for money review of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme be published without delay. It was initiated by the Department of Health in March 2018 and was due for publication in March 2019. Over...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: On 18 October, we sought a timeline on when the Department of Health's value for money review of the nursing homes support scheme would be published. That was one issue. We also sought a timeline outlining when the committee can expect to receive the report prepared by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, which outlines progress on the national paediatric hospital project to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (10 Nov 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...placed Coast Guard units around the coast who provide cliff rescue capabilities. There has been further development of these units in recent years with the issuing of new equipment. A Value for Money review of the Coast Guard service, published in 2012, recommended the continuation of boat and shoreline rescue service and cessation of cliff training for the Bunbeg unit which...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (9 Nov 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...placed Coast Guard units around the coast who provide cliff rescue capabilities. There has been further development of these units in recent years with the issuing of new equipment. A Value for Money review of the Coast Guard service, published in 2012, recommended the continuation of boat and shoreline rescue service and cessation of cliff training for the Bunbeg unit which is twinned...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (14 Oct 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...cost, detailing exactly where the additional costs arose and outlining what was attributable to construction inflation. As the project would have been approved based upon the original budget, a full value for money review with an updated business plan must be provided by the lead party before any additional funding could be considered.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. What is the status of the Department of Health's value for money review of the nursing homes support scheme? That report has not been published yet. When is it likely to be published and will it be out of date when it is published? Covid certainly shone a light on deficiencies. It is one thing paying for a service; it is another thing for that service to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)

Michael McGrath: ...appraisal of how its current public goods are being delivered. Each month, the Management Board also reviews the financial performance and expenditure of the Department. It also carries out a value for money review of all IT and consultancy projects in excess of €25,000 twice a year. As the challenges facing our society change, so too do the activities that are required to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Jul 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: 2966. To ask the Minister for Health when the value for money review on nursing home care costs will be published. [39722/21]