Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Remuneration of Section 38 Agency Staff: Health Service Executive

3:30 pm

Mr. Ian Tegerdine:

We are still in dialogue with the National Maternity Hospital. Obviously, there is a legal service agreement between them and us. The national director for acute hospitals is leading those contract negotiations. The disclosure of the information is being discussed as part of that contractual process, which picks up on some later points. What will happen next is that if the hospital, after we explain again the importance of this, and we have had a number of interactions with it already on this, still fails to comply, the sanction we have is the withholding of income to the hospital. That is the sanction that is possible under the service agreement. It could potentially receive a financial penalty.

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