Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 June 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 21 - Budget Management in Health Service Executive
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

11:10 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Yes. Some, as the committee members may have read in one of today's national newspapers, are asserting through their employers that they have a contractual entitlement to continue with the payment. In those cases, essentially, we have said to their employees that they must prove it. Obviously, if they can prove it, the matter will have to be discussed with the two relevant Departments. It is almost a non sequiturthat if someone has a contractual entitlement, then he or she has a contractual entitlement, and we will have to work through what happens in those instances. There have been a wide variety of responses.

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