Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

12:10 pm

Mr. Patrick Burke:

General practitioners who sign the death certificate can also record the death on the database. We can pick up on deaths not notified to us and we are also notified of some deaths by individual families. There are various avenues people can use to inform us of deaths.