Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I am not sure that I follow. Obviously, the accounts have to reflect the payments that were incurred in the period and all the previous periods. At the end of the year they are required to indicate the level of commitments that they are locked into. If there is a determined figure, if a claim has been decided, then that should be included and it is a payment that will be made in the future. That should be already incorporated into the figure but obviously, if there are claims that have not been determined-----