1 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the discussions, if any, he had in his Department or the memo or documentation, if any, received prior to a decision being made to request the United Kingdom authorities to delay payment of a sum of £20 million due in December 1997 to January 1998 to reimburse his Department under EU regulations for the cost of health services provided to persons insured for health services in the United Kingdom; whether he was party to the letter sent in November 1997 requesting the United Kingdom authorities to delay payment and to the decision made following receipt of the sum of £20 million by the Central Bank on 16 December 1997 to delay issuing accounting instructions to the bank to credit these moneys to his Department's account until January 1998 to prevent this sum being brought to account as appropriations-in-aid in 1997 in order that the appropriation account for that year's Vote would not reflect the full receipts proper to 1997; and his views on whether conducting his Department's accounting processes accords with proper procedures and his obligation to properly account to Dáil Éireann. [19014/98]

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1 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the discussions, if any, he had in his Department or the memo or documentation, if any, received prior to a decision being made to request the United Kingdom authorities to delay payment of a sum of £20 million due in December 1997 to January 1998 to reimburse his Department under EU regulations for the cost of health services provided to persons insured for health services in the United Kingdom; whether he was party to the letter sent in November 1997 requesting the United Kingdom authorities to delay payment and to the decision made following receipt of the sum of £20 million by the Central Bank on 16 December 1997 to delay issuing accounting instructions to the bank to credit these moneys to his Department's account until January 1998 to prevent this sum being brought to account as appropriations-in-aid in 1997 in order that the appropriation account for that year's Vote would not reflect the full receipts proper to 1997; and his views on whether conducting his Department's accounting processes accords with proper procedures and his obligation to properly account to Dáil Éireann. [19014/98]

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1. 8 October 1998

   Ceisteanna — Questions. Priority Questions. - Accounting Procedures.

   1 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the discussions, if any, he had in his Department or the memo or documentation, if any, received prior to a decision being made to request the United Kingdom authorities to delay payment of a sum of £20 million due in December 1997 to January 1998 to reimburse his Department under EU regulations for the cost of health services provided to persons insured for health services in the United Kingdom; whether he was party to the letter sent in November 1997 requesting the United Kingdom authorities to delay payment and to the decision made following receipt of the sum of £20 million by the Central Bank on 16 December 1997 to delay issuing accounting instructions to the bank to credit these moneys to his Department's account until January 1998 to prevent this sum being brought to account as appropriations-in-aid in 1997 in order that the appropriation account for that year's Vote would not reflect the full receipts proper to 1997; and his views on whether conducting his Department's accounting processes accords with proper procedures and his obligation to properly account to Dáil Éireann. [19014/98]

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