The HSE,SIPTU and the missing 2.3 million!

[spidermom]

Took me a while to find it (again!!...) .....http://www.finance.gov.ie/documents/...09/finheal.pdf..


Its the Health Vote sector(basically the senior civil service DOF in charge of monitoring HSE/DOHC expenditure) submission to An Bord Snip.

This is stated in the first couple of paragraphs.....


As the HSE has so far failed to account
for its voted expenditure in line with the new Vote structure required in the 2008 Revised
Estimate Volume (REV) and as its current Vote structure does not provide a meaningful
basis for accounting for its financial and management performance, the material in this
submission for the HSE is structured around the care group programmes in the HSE‘s
service plan and performance management reports. Due the manner in which the HSE
accounts for Voted Gross expenditure on a net basis (own income from hospitals etc is
retained by them) and the inconsistent presentation of information between its service
plan, management performance reports and capital plan there may be differences between
certain expenditure provisions and gaps in information as set out in this programme
presentation.



So it appears that the HSE have history here!!

[hammer]

They just need to employ some accountants with a knowledge of figures rather than some career public servants with a history of crossword puzzles & sidoko

[Harmonica]

25k per employee over 5 years is a huge cost. Seems like the PS is just one big slush fund for the unions and politicians who have no incentive to change.

[powderfinger]

Just thinking, Prof Niamh Brennan, regarded as leading iIish expert on corporate governance - and made chair of DDA for that expertise and to sort that organisation out - has been on the Board of the HSE for several years - and this waste/lack of accountability etc has gone on since 2004...

How could it be that apparently so much money has been spent and is unaccounted for......with such an expert on the HSE board?

She will be on the case soon ,no doubt.Perfectly positioned to carry out a reverse due diligence scoping of the €60m allocated to the SKILL programme between 2004 and 2008 (with particular regard to this mysteriously unexplained €2.35m bag of vanished cash).
Prof. Drumm hasn't a sniff as to it's whereabouts.He is 'concerned' about it however.
RTÉ News: HSE chief 'concerned' over €2.35m fund

The chief executive of the Health Service Executive has said that he is concerned about how a €2.35m fund, which is currently being investigated by gardaí, was spent.
Speaking at the launch of the HSE annual report, Brendan Drumm confirmed that gardaí have been asked to look at how the fund was operated.
He said he was unable to say what the fund was for.
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Prof Drumm said that as part of a partnership agreement, money had moved between the Government and one of the trade unions, which he later identified as SIPTU.
However, SIPTU has previously categorically rejected reports that it had received this money

[spidermom]

Siptu enquiries over HSE information - The Irish Times - Wed, Jun 16, 2010


Appears that a siptu official is the subject of inquiries into this matter...

[DeGaulle 2.0]

It is difficult to believe that just one person could pocket 2.3 million just like that.

[bored and fussy]

Siptu enquiries over HSE information - The Irish Times - Wed, Jun 16, 2010


Appears that a siptu official is the subject of inquiries into this matter...

i cant wait to hear gilmore and burton getting all hot and bothered about the loss to the taxpayer of this large amount of money.

[powderfinger]

It is difficult to believe that just one person could pocket 2.3 million just like that.

Just like that.

[cyberianpan]

I'm surprised the HSE's Financial Control was fine grained enough to spot a missing €2.3m

cYp

[MacO'velli]

i cant wait to hear gilmore and burton getting all hot and bothered about the loss to the taxpayer of this large amount of money.

Seeing as it was channeled through the beards, i'm sure the faux outrage will be muted.