Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
4:05 pm
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
It is quite likely there are. I think the report suggests somewhere that the vast majority of such payments actually predate the establishment of the HSE. That would date them from before 2005, although their continuation, their application to persons who have come into posts since that time, would make them constitute a new event, in a sense. There may be a continuation of a prior practice but it is a new event.
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