Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration
2:50 pm
Mr. Nicholas Jermyn:
Yes. As Mr. O'Brien said, we are responsible for monitoring category B consultants. The advantage I wanted to stress is that in our private hospital we are not there to make profits and pay out dividends. We are a charitable organisation under the umbrella of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group Limited. I am in a position to monitor those consultants and their level of private practice on our campus. We have had this model working on our campus since 1974. As I said, the definition of a category A consultant is that they can only do public practice and have no private patients whatsoever.
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