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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I take it as a positive response, but that is a matter for us as well. There is one issue with the embargo in that the co-ordinator for the drugs task force in our area, a gentlemen named John Bennett, a fantastic man, passed away, and there have been suggestions that that post cannot be filled because of the recruitment embargo, even though it has been filled for 20 years. I ask the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) ...when you introduce a control, because our systems are very immature in some ways, you will get an unintended consequence. There would be no question but that I would consider the co-ordinator of a drugs task force to be an essential job, even if it is categorised as management-admin, which it probably should not be, so we will look after that. I had the pleasure a couple of months ago of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: I might move on to the local drug and alcohol task force funding. In 2023, €3.5 million was allocated. What kinds of controls are on that in terms of it being spent on what it was announced for? Is it plugging gaps? Will there be a need for multi-annual funding or is it a one-off? I know how much has been allocated to each of the CHO areas but this is about the control on that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Mr. Bernard Gloster: I might come back to the Deputy on that and give her a specific assurance but I can certainly say that if she has been told how much has been allocated to the various drugs task force services, I can assure her it has been allocated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: ...issue about the use of pharmacies, for instance. We have a whole lot of people having to attend GPs because you cannot open up the whole distribution of medication. If it is a non-prescriptive drug, you could go into ten different pharmacies and get the same drug on the one day whereas if all of that is computerised you could give a lot more work out to pharmacies and people would not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Could I also just make it clear that the question I would like a response to in regard to the local drugs and alcohol task forces is whether the funding provides them with an annual budget. How did the HSE determine how much each CHO area received? Dublin's north and the south inner city, which are part of CHO 7 and CHO 9, respectively, are fairly similar to other big CHO areas yet we are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Mr. Bernard Gloster: I do not have specific detail on that to hand. If we go back to the previous iterations of the regional drug task forces, I would have a clear expectation, first, that we would not vire that money for anything else and I would expect local chief officers in CHO areas to utilise the money for the task for which it is meant. If they have a difficulty either in recruiting...