Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In fairness to the insurance companies and for clarification, in many cases there is no proper structure in the HSE. I will give a simple example. The Chairman spoke about consultants signing off. In some hospitals staff refuse to pull files for people to sign off on them. There are no proper procedures in place. This has not just happened this year and last year. It has been going on for quite a long time and goes back to the structures in the hospital. The private sector does not have the same problem.