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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)

Jim O'Callaghan: I have one or two questions. I am sorry if they have been asked already. I welcome all of our guests. My first question is for Mr. Carville. I am conscious that head 8 provides for the dissolution day of NAMA. I suppose it is a matter of ministerial discretion, but is it envisaged that the Minister will dissolve NAMA relatively quickly after the legislation is enacted?

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)

Jim O'Callaghan: In terms of the assets and liabilities, head 9 states that they go to the Minister, are paid to the Exchequer or are transferred to the NTMA. What is the current thinking as to which line will be recommended to the Minister?

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)

Jim O'Callaghan: This may have been answered previously, but do we have a headline on the assets and liabilities of NAMA at this stage?

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)

Jim O'Callaghan: So it is clearly being wound down. In terms of the IBRC, what is the intention in respect of ongoing litigation? I know there are still some large pieces of litigation in respect of the IBRC. What is the intention in that regard? I am not asking about policy in respect of the cases but generally, under the legislation when it is enacted, what will be the consequence for the ongoing 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)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Carville.

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

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Crowe and Senators Kyne, Hoey and Black. The minutes of the committee meeting of 10 July 2024 have been circulated among members for their consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is to receive an update on progress being made by the productivity and savings task force. The task force was established by the Minister...

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

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster. On behalf of the committee, I would like to be associated with the remarks relating to Mr. Ray Mitchell. He has been extremely helpful and courteous to the committee down through the years. He also came back and engaged and has been a vital structure between us and the Department. On behalf of the committee, I thank Mr. Mitchell very much for all his help and support....

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

Seán Crowe: The ten minutes is for questions and answers. Deputy Durkan has used up his ten minutes.

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

Seán Crowe: I know. I am conscious-----

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

Seán Crowe: The Deputy has used up his time.

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

Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall said it was the last question two questions ago.

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

Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall will get a second round, hopefully.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I will start by adding my congratulations to Mr. Mitchell, and also by recognising the work that has been completed on the waiting lists, and the effort going into it in the face of increasing demand. I know that is not a small challenge. I want to follow up on the issue of targets and estimated savings but I want to look back a little bit to the recruitment freeze. My first question is...

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

Neasa Hourigan: Okay but we were increasing at a percentage point and we can track that on a graph somewhere, say what the percentage increase was and estimate what the saving was, can we not?

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

Neasa Hourigan: We will come to staffing ceilings in a moment but I expect we would have a sense of what the recruitment freeze did in terms of savings and efficiencies.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. We can argue whether it is an opportunity cost but we should have a sense of what that number would have been if we had not put the recruitment freeze in place.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Mulvany has all the calculations so he could do that. He has all the numbers at his fingertips. He could do that calculation and tell us.