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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I did not give a figure. I asked how much has been spent on litigation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I want to go back to the destroying of records. A question was asked as to whether, as we speak, those records have been destroyed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Can we find out for the committee whether they have been destroyed? If they have not been destroyed we need to make sure we have a paper trail and that we have records that can be analysed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is not an ordinary liquidation we are speaking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As legislators we have to do everything we possibly can to examine what has gone on here. We have to remember that when NAMA was set up it had absolute and total control of the property market, land development and everything else. We now have a situation a number of years later whereby nobody can afford a house with everything that has gone on in the midst of a housing crisis that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Who decides what is kept and what is destroyed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will leave it there because I want to give a chance to others to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: How much money has been spent on litigation in the cases that are being contested?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: Can I ask Mr. Gloster about the publication of the review of Mr. Justice Frank Clarke into the death of Aoife Johnston? The witnesses might have seen reports in the media today that the report might be published next month and that the family has asked for the report to be published by this Friday. It is obviously a really important issue. As well as waiting for the publication of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: I will move on to performance and outputs. When we are talking about productivity what people will measure is, obviously, what we get at the other end of the investments we make. Since 2019, there has been a 50% increase in health spending, which we all welcome. Of course, additional funding will be needed over the next number of years in areas as well. One of the measurements is waiting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: Can I hold Mr. Gloster on that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: It does strike people as a bit bizarre that a country with a population of 5.2 million has 840,000 people on active waiting lists. That is acute waiting lists. We also have 240,000 people on community waiting lists, which do not get published. Members must submit parliamentary questions to get those responses. That is across a whole range of community services. That is a lot of people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: If can come back in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: -----I have given Mr. Gloster a lot of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: I accept that, and I have given Mr. Gloster a good deal of time to respond. I accept that long waiting times have come down; I acknowledged that twice. I make the point again, however, that there are still many people who are either coming onto waiting lists or who are still on them. I spoke to the head of the Department of Health about this matter a number of times. I want to see more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: -----integrated waiting list management systems and getting a better bang for buck. Those are the outputs we are talking about. When we look at the big numbers of people waiting, they just do not make sense in the context of the size of our population. One of the issues that has come up in respect of expenditure is that of aids and appliances. Spending in this regard has, again, gone up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: Say that again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: I will start; we will not waste any time. As regards the productivity and savings task force action plan that was published, one of the areas that was key to identifying savings was agency spend - overtime, obviously. As part of the pay and numbers strategy that was published, there were a number of pillars to it setting a ceiling for staff recruitment. The ceiling is too low. We have had...