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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: 2098.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the reimbursement amount for cataract surgery under the cross-border treatment scheme has been reduced from €1,928 to €863; the person who made the direction that the amount be reduced; if the reimbursement amounts will be restored to previous levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31567/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (23 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: 2203.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE has reduced the amount to be reimbursed to people who have cataracts removed under the cross-Border scheme from €1,928 to €863 which is causing a problem for low income and elderly people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31866/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: 2236.To ask the Minister for Health when clinical placement co-ordinators for nursing and midwifery will be given parity with clinical nurse manager grade 2 by giving them a long service increment and one other scale point; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32067/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (23 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: 2494.To ask the Minister for Health the current number of dentists working in the school dental scheme in Longford and Westmeath; the progress being made to improve the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33296/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: I wish to raise the issue of the cross-Border health programme and its funding. Some of the people who go to the North for cataract surgery have been waiting for four or five years. It is a scandal in itself that we cannot do this surgery in this State. However, people, who are, typically, elderly, are going to the North to have this surgery. The cost of it is just in excess of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: It has gone from €1,928 to €863.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: The Tánaiste promised me last week he would come back to me and he has not done so. Can he ensure I get reply on this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: We have apologies from Deputies John Brady, Ciarán Cannon and Imelda Munster. I ask all those in attendance to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practices of the Houses as regards references witnesses may make to other persons in their evidence. The evidence of witnesses...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Gleeson. Before we go to questions, I wish to clarify something from last week's meeting. At last week's hearing, Mr. Sheahan, deputy chief veterinary officer in the Department, was here. Questions were asked by Deputy Catherine Murphy and I regarding potential historical incidents at the Straffan plant that appeared in the "Prime Time" investigation programme. I said, "In...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Two issues highlighted. How did we get an answer like that from assistant chief veterinary officer? Will Mr. Blake, as the chief veterinary officer, or Mr. Callanan, as the chief inspector, comment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: We take that as a given.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: To use the word "reasonable" and put it back to Mr. Gleeson, would it not have been reasonable and would there not have been an expectation that he could have said - I want to be careful in what I say at the committee - that there is an ongoing Garda-led investigation into the individuals and a court prosecution due to be heard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: The horse racing sector was before the committee. Mr. Sheahan came in as a representative of the Department. Is Mr. Gleeson seriously trying to tell me that in the briefing before he came in here, and as the deputy chief veterinary officer, he would not have been aware that there was an ongoing court case regarding this plant?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: What is Mr. Gleeson trying to say?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: No one wants Mr. Gleeson to draw conclusions from an ongoing court case. I, the committee and Deputy Catherine Murphy, are trying to get an answer to these questions. There was an ongoing investigation. We asked specifically about historical cases regarding the individuals involved and the plan and this was not mentioned. Here it is now in a reply to a parliamentary question answered...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: That fact was highly relevant to answers we tried to get to questions here last Thursday morning. We will leave it at that for now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am sorry as I had to pop out for a moment. We had some newly elected MPs from the North down. Let me move on with the questioning. My first question is on agency staff. For the year in question, there is a cost of €99.5 million, and for 2021 the figure is €91.8 million. This has arisen with other bodies, and obviously there can be explanations, but why is this such a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: In relation to the accounts-----