Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 December 2013

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary)

10:50 am

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have strayed into subhead B5 on that matter. Under that subhead, members of the committee are very concerned and disappointed about what happened regarding the section 38 and 39 agencies, about which we have spoken already. In my view the positions of the board members of the Central Remedial Clinical, based on yesterday's proceedings and the remarks made by Deputy Ó Caoláin, and by Deputy Kelleher previously, are untenable. I hope the Minister and the HSE will take action. I have made the point here and on the national airwaves that the service level agreement, which is not part of what we are considering today, should be used to make sure that they are complaint. That does not mean cutting the service but making sure that the organisation is accountable for the consequences of what it is doing.

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